Meet Our Ninth Nobelist: Richard Thaler '74 (Phd)

Meet Our Ninth Nobelist: Richard Thaler ’74 (PhD)

FROZEN CLUES Does 12,000-year-old ice Meliora Magic hold the keys to climate? The University community celebrates connections.

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All in at East Superintendent Shaun Nelms ’13W (EdD) and others leading an innovative University-Community partnership see signs of success at a storied school.

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Wonderful 30 ‘A School to Weekend Call Their Own’ A partnership with the Jacob Lowenherz ’19 (above) University has helped East takes a picture of Isabel High School forge a new Anderson ’20 (top) and culture and commitment to Brianna Terrell ’20 as they revival. By Karen McCally ’02 pose on letters spelling out (PhD) “Meliora” on the Eastman Quadrangle, one of several incarnations of the motto on display during Meliora 38 Climate Clues Weekend. They were among Frozen in Time the near record numbers of In a lab in Hutchison Hall, alumni, students, parents, researchers analyze ancient faculty, and friends who ice samples from Greenland celebrated their connections and Antarctica for clues about to Rochester during the 2017 the past and future of climate edition of the weekend. change. By Lindsey Valich

ON THE COVER: Shaun Nelms ’13W (EdD), superintendent of East High School. Photograph by J. Adam Fenster.

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In Review 56 Graduate Arts, Sciences 6 48 & Engineering 6 A Conversation with 57 Eastman School Richard Thaler ’74 of Music (PhD) Meet Rochester’s ninth Nobelist. 58 Meet the National Alumni Board 8 Building Better Cells Researchers address a 59 School of Medicine cancer side effect. and Dentistry 10 String Those Bells The 59 School of Nursing Hopeman Memorial 59 Simon Business School Carillon is rejuvenated. 59 Warner School 12 The Power of Gower of Education A rare edition of a poetry classic joins the Robbins 59 In Memoriam Library’s collections. 60 Barry Florescue ’66 14 ‘End of an Era’ Physicist Remembering an Robert McCrory brings entrepreneur and trustee. a four-decade career of 61 Jack Keil ’44 ‘The scientific leadership at funniest man I ever knew.’ Rochester to a close. 64 Mixed Media 16 Meet the President Storytelling Dave and Vice President in 22 Women’s Basketball 49 Five Questions Tiffany Chisholm ’13E (DMA) the College . . . Student Picked to Win UAA Taylor Smith ’91 is knows how to craft a leaders bring a passion for the new executive 23 Men’s Soccer Earns single story in two distinct politics. director for inclusive NCAA Bid Team make its media: comic art and jazz. excellence, education, and 17 . . . and at the Eastman fifth trip in six years. professional development School of Music 23 Football Coach Scott at the University of President and vice Greene Steps Down Dayton. president favor dialog, data—and dogs. 23 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees to the 2017 class Class Notes 18 Discover How healthy are recognized for their is American democracy? 50 College Arts, Sciences achievements. Should teenagers sleep & Engineering later? And other research 52 Teacher, Scholar, questions. Alumni Gazette and Academic 20 In Brief Libraries 46 Quick Conversation Leader University dean leads national Derek Peterson ’93 Trustee Hugo organization, Goergen hopes that receiving a Sonnenschein Award–winning teachers MacArthur “genius” ’61 has a lifetime of are recognized, and other grant will help bring connections to Rochester campus news. attention to the history and other leading of Africa. universities. 21 Ask the Archivist Where have all the cyclotrons 47 In the News Jeff Beal 54 School of Medicine gone? ’85E earns fifth Emmy. and Dentistry Honors Alumni, Friends 22 Field Hockey Wins First 48 Starting Up Girl Starter’s Liberty League Title Jeannine Shao Collins ’86 Yellowjackets earn a spot wants to set young women 64 in the NCAA round of 16. on a path to success.

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Congratulations, Richard B y Joel Seligman

It was thrilling on October 8 to learn that Richard Thaler, who received both a master’s degree (1970) and a PhD (1974) in economics from the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Rochester, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sci- ences. Richard began his academic career at what is now the Simon Business School. For many years he has been a distinguished faculty member of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Many of our alumni may recall Richard from his appearance at a Presidential Sym- posium here in 2009, or when he received an honorary doctor of science degree at our commencement in 2010. He is a leader in the field of behavioral economics, which spans economics and psychology, and is the author of several popular works, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, cowritten DEGREES OF INFLUENCE: The work of Nobel laureate Richard Thaler ’74 (PhD) “has been deeply with Harvard Law School Professor Cass influential, exploring how people make economic decisions and helping to explain how seemingly Sunstein; and Misbehaving: The Making of irrational decisions in fact have a sound psychological basis,” says Seligman, who presented Thaler Behavioral Economics. His doctoral the- with an honorary degree during the 2010 Arts, Sciences & Engineering commencement ceremony. sis offered one of the earliest estimates of the value of saving a life, one now widely The Nobel committee also said that it University of Rochester recently took steps used by governments and businesses to was honoring Richard for his pioneering to reduce the number of retirement plan determine how much to spend to prevent work in establishing that people are pre- choices, we were mindful of his scholar- fatalities. dictably irrational in behaving in ways that ship, which demonstrates that for many Richard’s work has been deeply in- defy neoclassical economic theory—but in individuals too many choices leads to no fluential, exploring how people make ways that can be anticipated and modeled. choice at all. The Nobel committee also economic decisions and helping to ex- People will refuse to pay more for an um- credited Richard with a distinct shift to- plain how seemingly irrational decisions in brella during a rainstorm; they will use the ward automatic enrollment of employees fact have a sound psychological basis. His savings from lower gas prices to buy pre- in retirement savings programs. best-selling book Nudge has popularized mium gasoline; and they will buy a coffee As Richard wrote at the conclusion of the notion that people can be influenced by mug for $3 but refuse to sell it for $6. When Misbehaving, he is “entirely optimistic prompts to alter their behavior. The book asked about how he would spend the prize about the future of economics. One sign argued that governments could use behav- money (approximately $1.1 million), Rich- that I find particularly encouraging is that ioral insights to improve the efficiency and ard facetiously responded, “This is quite a economists who do not identify themselves quality of a wide range of public services. funny question. I will try to spend it as ir- as ‘behavioral’ wrote some of the best be- After Cass Sunstein joined the Obama Ad- rationally as possible.” havioral economic papers published in re- ministration in 2009, the “nudge” approach Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, a pro- cent years. These economists simply do proved influential with many regulatory fessor at Princeton University and Rich- solid economic work and let the chips fall decisions, from streamlining rules to rais- ard’s close friend and longtime research where they may.” ing fuel economy standards for new cars, to collaborator, has characterized Richard After learning that he would receive the tightening regulations after the subprime as a “creative genius.” Yale Professor Rob- award, Richard commented that “in order mortgage crisis. In 2010, the British gov- ert Shiller, a behavioral economist who to do good economics, you have to keep in ernment set up a “Nudge Unit,” which was received the Nobel Prize in 2013, has ob- mind that people are human.” headed by a psychologist. The Nobel com- served that “Richard Thaler has been at The University is proud to salute our mittee said that Richard, who made a guest the center of the most important revolu- alumnus Richard Thaler, our ninth Nobel appearance in the 2015 film The Big Short, tion to happen in economics in the last thir- laureate. We join with many around the has provided a “more realistic analysis of ty years.” world in congratulating him on this richly how people think and behave when mak- Richard’s work has also had practical deserved recognition of his intellectual ing economic decisions.” and local benefits. For example, when the achievements.r

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Power of Friendship I wonder how many alumni had the same EXPLORE reaction that I had upon reading “Forev- er Friends” in the September-October is- November–December 2017 VOLUME 80, NO. 2 sue, about two freshmen who turned their random room assignment into a lifelong Editor friendship? Scott Hauser So, a “shout-out” to my randomly as- Associate Editors IDEAS signed freshman roommate, Tim Cook ’66. Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) We also roomed together as sophomores, Kathleen McGarvey and remained friends for the rest of our Contributors that undergrad years. It’s been over half a cen- Patrick Broadwater, Jeanette Colby, tury since we first met on a September day Theresa Danylak, Adam Fenster, Peter Iglinski, Joyce Farrell, Sandra Knispel, outside Tiernan Hall and occupied Room Jim Mandelaro, Phyllis Mangefrida, Bob 202, but we’ve stayed in touch ever since, STUDENT ART: Muchmore identified nearly Marcotte, Melissa Mead, Mark Michaud, meeting most recently this summer. MATTER 300 species of pseudoscorpions, including Sara Miller, Dennis O’Donnell, Leslie Orr, Richard Sorrell ’66, ’68W (MA) Bituberochernes jonensis Muchmore—which Christine Roth, Scott Sabocheck, Laura Red Bank, New Jersey was named for him, and drawn here by his Torchia, Lindsey Valich, Jim Ver Steeg, and Kristine Thompson student Wendy Beth Jackelow ’83. In 2018, the Barbara J. Burger More to Muchmore Business Manager Maureen Baisch The tribute to Professor William Muchmore forgot those words spoken by such a gentle iZone will open a new chapter in (July-August 2017) truly captured his re- and self-effacing man, free from pretense Editorial Office markable personality. I, too, took his course and self-aggrandizement. He set a fine ex- 22 Wallis Hall University of Rochester the historic Rush Rhees Library, in vertebrate zoology. A year or two after ample for the entire University community. 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FOUNDING FIGURE: Widely recognized as a founding figure in a field that argues traditional economic models don’t adequately account for how people approach economic decisions, Thaler is a leading scholar on the intersection between human behavior and economic decision making.

NOBEL PRIZES A Conversation with Rochester’s Latest Nobel Prize Recipient Richard Thaler ’74 (PhD) talks about counting cashews, a life-changing scientific paper, why people don’t behave rationally with money, and—oh, yes—receiving a Nobel Prize.

Interview by Sandra Knispel economics, a field that he helped create, It’s such daily insights that spurred his one that bridges the gap between eco- intellectual curiosity. Richard Thaler, the Charles R. Walgreen nomics and psychology. At its core is the Thaler has made a name for himself by Distinguished Service Professor of Eco- premise that people often behave in human studying why people predictably don’t nomics and Behavioral Science at the ways, rather than in ways that are more ra- act the way traditional economists say University of Chicago’s Booth School of tional and selfish, which had been the stan- they will. Predictably, that has pitted him Business, has a prized item at a store in dard economic assumption. against fellow economists. Chicago, waiting to be framed. How did he get there? Well, cashews Known for his sharp wit, he told NPR in It’s “the best thing that has happened so played a part. At a Rochester dinner party, 2015 that economists have devoted them- far,” he says about the aftermath of win- he and his fellow graduate students were selves to studying fictional creatures by ning the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in eating cashews too quickly. He called that assuming that people “are highly ratio- Economic Sciences this fall. It’s a congratu- a problem of self-control and ultimately nal creatures capable of complex calcula- latory letter from former President Barack short-sightedness, especially if you can’t tions, devoid of emotion, never having any Obama, a fellow Nobel laureate and erst- stop eating cashews while knowing that self-control problems, and they’re com- while Chicago faculty member. “That was dinner is just around the corner. He told plete jerks.” very thoughtful of him,” says Thaler, who the New York Times that if “the cashews The sixth alumnus to receive the prize, earned his PhD at Rochester in 1974, and aren’t in front of you, you’re less tempted to Thaler is Rochester’s ninth Nobel laureate taught at the University until 1978. eat them. In fact, if you have to get up and and the second in economics after former The Nobel committee recognized walk all the way to the kitchen—you don’t faculty member Robert Fogel, one of Thal- Thaler for his contributions to behavioral end up eating so much.” er’s teachers.

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rr_Nov2017_InReview.indd 6 11/10/17 4:38 PM You’ve said that for the last 50 or 60 years, possible, namely that people made predictable Rochester’s economists have devoted themselves to errors in judgments. studying fictional creatures. “They might as Economists were happy to admit that people Nobel Laureates well be studying unicorns,” you said. That made mistakes but they thought the mistakes Economist Richard Thaler ’74 must have really endeared you to fellow would just wash out and add random noise. The (PhD) became Rochester’s economists. idea of systematic bias was fundamental. ninth Nobel Prize recipient Yes, it did not go over well at the Simon School this fall, when he was recog- where I was teaching, so I had to leave Roches- You came up with the idea of sunk costs nized for his work in behav- ter for Cornell. I told people I was moving south because of a snow storm in Buffalo . . . ioral economics. He joins five for the weather. Economists are always telling people to ignore other graduates and three “sunk costs,” that is, money that has already been faculty members among the Where was that “gigantic house in Rochester” spent. They also assume that people naturally University’s Nobel laureates. where you left the cashews in the kitchen so behave as if they understood this concept, even 2002 Nobel Prize as to reduce your and your fellow graduate though they have trouble teaching it to students. in Physics students’ consumption? The story you are referring to was this: a friend Physicist Masatoshi Koshiba It was certainly not a gigantic house. Probably and I were given two tickets to an NBA game ’55 (PhD), who led work to graduate student housing. Later I lived on Stan- in Buffalo back when they had a team. There detect the subatomic particles ford Road near the hospital. was a big snow storm so we didn’t go, but my known as neutrinos. non-economist friend said, “If we had paid for Do you have more friends in the field now that those tickets we would have gone for sure.” I 1997 Nobel Prize you won the Nobel Prize? thought, “Hmmm, another item for my list of in Physics No, but I have heard from many old friends, even funny behavior.” Physicist Steven Chu ’70, some from childhood. That has been great fun. former Secretary of Energy, But the best thing that has happened so far is May we call you the father of behavioral who developed methods to getting a personal note from President Obama. economics? When did you realize that you were cool and trap atoms with That was very thoughtful of him. on to something that would either shake up laser light. your field or make you a total outcast? 1993 Nobel Prize You joked that you would spend the 9 million Some have called me that, though the field has in Economic Sciences Swedish krona prize money as irrationally as many creators. And yes, it did make me an outcast Economist Robert Fogel, possible and called it “fun money.” Have you in some places, including Rochester. I think that a former faculty member started? On what? will still be the case now at the Simon School. who pioneered quantitative Well, I haven’t gotten the money yet, so according analyses of social history. to behavioral economics I will not start splurging In your latest book Misbehaving: The Making of until I get the money. I have bought plane tick- Behavioral Economics (W. W. Norton, 2016), you 1976 Nobel Prize ets for my kids and their spouses to join the fes- tell stories of things that people do that don’t in Physiology or Medicine tivities in Stockholm, but that is highly rational. make sense in traditional economic theory. Is Carleton Gajdusek ’43, who is most of the traditional theory rubbish? credited with discovering the What were you obsessed with in Rochester No, economic theory is not rubbish. In fact, it is infectious disease mechanism when you worked on your PhD here? Besides essential to what I do. But economic theory is of prions. cashews and garbage plates—intellectually, I about how people “should” behave if they want 1959 Nobel Prize mean? to be rational. We need that theory, but we also in Physiology or Medicine My PhD thesis, supervised by Sherwin Rosen need other theories to say how people actually Arthur Kornberg ’41M (MD), [the late Rochester labor economist], was on the behave. who first discovered a way to value of a human life. It was a very standard eco- synthesize DNA. nomic exercise, estimating how much you had In return, a colleague accused you in 2004 of to pay people to take risky jobs, but I did ask being a “paternalist”—have you made peace 1955 Nobel Prize some questions that piqued my interest. I asked with that title? Or is “professional nudge” in Chemistry people how much they would pay to eliminate a better? Vincent du Vigneaud ’27 1/1000th risk of death and how much they would My colleague and I call it libertarian paternal- (PhD), a biochemist, for have to be paid to accept an increased risk of ism because it is true that we are trying to help research on sulfur-containing death of 1/1000th. The answers differed wildly, people (the paternalistic part), but we try to do compounds. often by several orders of magnitude. Standard so without requiring anyone to do anything (the 1943 Nobel Prize economic theory said they should be about the libertarian part). That is what our book Nudge in Physiology or Medicine same. That got me thinking deviant thoughts. [written with Harvard Law School Professor Biochemist Henrick Dam for Cass Sunstein] is about. his discovery of vitamin K. During that time you read a paper that had just been published by psychologists Daniel Have you finished writing your acceptance 1934 Nobel Prize Kahneman and Amos Tversky—“Judgment speech for the Swedish Academy? Want to give in Physiology or Medicine under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” us a preview sentence or two? Will the word George Whipple, founding This one paper altered the course of your work, “enhörning” (Swedish for unicorn) come up? dean of the School of Medicine your life . . . how? No, haven’t started. Too busy answering inter- and Dentistry, for his work to They had one key idea that made my research views like this one. Now back to work!r develop a therapy for anemia.

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 7 11/10/17 12:34 PM CANCER TREATMENT Building Better Cells GROWTH FACTORS: Cells inside “microbubbles” fluoresce in ultraviolet light, illustrating a project to explore whether the tiny spherical wells of the microbubbles can be used to grow tissue to replace cells in human salivary glands. Catherine Ovitt, an associate professor of biomedical genetics; Danielle Benoit, an associate professor of biomedical engineering; and Lisa DeLouise, an associate professor of dermatology and biomedical engineering, have received an NIH grant to research a concept patented by DeLouise that uses the technology to develop salivary tissue for patients treated for cancers of the head and neck. Those patients sometimes lose the ability to make saliva, an often permanent condition that can make it difficult to swallow. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 9 11/10/17 12:34 PM SOUNDS OF CAMPUS String Those Bells CLAPPING ALONG: Carillon builder and restorer Josh Meeks reattaches cables to the bell clappers of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon in the tower of Rush Rhees Library late this summer. Meeks and other employees of Meeks, Watson & Co. of Georgetown, Ohio, completed a project to restore the carillon in time for its 50 bells to ring out during Meliora Weekend in October. Cast in Europe at the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry in the Netherlands, the carillon’s bells were installed and dedicated in November 1973. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 11 11/10/17 12:34 PM MEDIEVAL STUDIES The Power of Gower EARLY EDITION: A newly acquired, rare copy of the influential 14th-century English poet John Gower’s Confessio Amantis is on exhibit through January at the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, part of the River Campus Libraries. Gower completed the work, which was dedicated to Richard II and Geoffrey Chaucer, in 1390; after this 1554 edition, the poem was not reprinted again until the 19th century. Consequently, centuries of readers and writers—including William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and John Dryden—encountered Gower primarily through this edition. Home to one of the most extensive medieval studies collections in North America and a longtime center of Gower studies, the library marks its 30th anniversary this year. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 13 11/10/17 12:34 PM IN REVIEW LABORATORY FOR LASER ENERGETICS ‘End of an Era’ Physicist and scientific leader Robert McCrory, who has shepherded the Laboratory for Laser Energetics to international prominence, retires after 41 years at the University. By Scott Hauser

Professor Robert L. McCrory, a physicist and scientific leader who has shepherded the University of Rochester’s Labora- tory for Laser Energetics to international prominence, stepped down from the direc- torship on October 1, the beginning of the federal government’s fiscal year. McCrory, who holds the title of Univer- sity Professor—one of just eight current or former members of the faculty to receive that distinction—and vice president, will retire from the University as of December 31, ending a four-decade career at Roches- ter. Michael Campbell, deputy director of LLE, will become director of the lab. President and CEO Joel Seligman says McCrory’s record of scientific achievement represents the entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary approaches that are the hallmarks of Rochester’s research and scholarship. “Bob had a vision for LLE and he worked tirelessly to engage faculty and students in optics, physics, engineering, and other departments to explore some of the most important scientific issues of the 20th and 21st centuries,” Seligman says. “He’s been a leader in working with our congressional leaders and colleagues at other institutions to advocate for the unique strengths of LLE. He deserves our thanks and appre- ciation for his efforts to make LLE an internationally recognized research facility.” University Provost and Senior Vice Pres- ident for Research Rob Clark says Mc- Crory’s leadership is synonymous with establishing Rochester as one of the pre- eminent sites for high-energy laser science. “This is truly the end of an era,” Clark says. “Bob has been instrumental in the success of LLE from nearly the beginning of the facility. He set a standard for research excellence, fiscal management, and academic achievement that will be hard LABORATORY LEADER: Under McCrory’s leadership, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics has to replace.” McCrory began his career at grown to become the largest single research facility at the University and established itself as an Rochester in 1976, arriving as a research important partner to Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and other national laboratories.

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rr_Nov2017_InReview.indd 14 11/13/17 11:53 AM IN REVIEW scientist from the Los Alamos National center for the study of high-energy-densi- Laboratory. He became director and CEO ty physics, an exploration of matter under of LLE in 1983. pressures that can only be found in stars Under his leadership, the lab has grown and in large planets. Such “laboratory as- to become the largest single research fa- trophysics” is expected to lead to the cre- cility at the University. It has also estab- ation of new materials and provide insights lished itself as an important partner to the into the make-up of the universe itself. national laboratories, Lawrence Livermore McCrory noted: “This laboratory is National Laboratory, Sandia National Lab- a unique University facility because it is oratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, closely coupled to the academic mission Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the University. LLE research is open to Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Na- students and professors across the Univer- val Research Laboratory, and the Princeton sity as well as around the world. This close Plasma Physics Lab. He has promoted part- coupling is unparalleled anywhere else.” UNIVERSITY RECOGNITION: Ricardo Betti was nerships with other area colleges and uni- McCrory has served on several National named the first McCrory Professor in 2014. versities, such as SUNY Geneseo. Academy of Sciences committees on mili- Since 1983, under McCrory, the lab has NAMESAKE tary space policy and plasma science. He secured about $2.3 billion in support (in Professorship Recognized has served on Director’s Review Boards of inflation-adjusted dollars). That includes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal appropriations through the Depart- McCrory as Leader and Los Alamos National Laboratory and ment of Energy, state funding through the and Scholar is a member of the Lawrence Livermore governor’s budgeting process and agencies National Laboratory’s External Review The University recognized Robert McCrory in like NYSERDA and other sources, and pri- Committee of the Weapons and Complex 2014, when fellow faculty member Riccardo vate sponsored grants and contracts. Integration Directorate. Betti was named the inaugural Robert L. The total represents the largest amount His honors include election as a fellow McCrory Professor at the University. of sponsored research funding awarded of the American Physical Society and fel- Endowed by an anonymous donor, the pro- to a single laboratory in the University’s low of the American Association for the fessorship was named to honor McCrory for history. Advancement of Science. He received the his work as a physicist and academic leader. The lab has provided an academic home career award from the Hajim School of En- Betti, a professor of mechanical engineer- to more than 500 PhD candidates, in- gineering & Applied Sciences in 1995 and ing and of physics and astronomy, was for- cluding more than 200 from outside the the Leadership Award from Fusion Power mally appointed to the McCrory Professorship University, as well as offered research op- Associates. during an installation ceremony in April 2014. portunities to generations of undergradu- In 1995 McCrory was awarded the Ed- At the same ceremony, McCrory was awarded ates and many high school students. ward Teller Medal given by the American the title University Professor. “I’m most proud that this lab has grown Nuclear Society for his “pioneering re- “Professor Betti is an exceptionally talented from a small university research lab to a search and leadership in the use of laser scholar and I am honored with his appoint- major research lab with an international and ion-particle beams to produce unique ment as the first scholar to occupy the Robert reputation,” says McCrory. “It’s been my high temperature and high-density matter L. McCrory Professorship,” McCrory said at the life’s work, and I take great pride in the for scientific research and for controlled time of the announcement. He also expressed number of students, the number of PhDs, thermonuclear fusion.” his gratitude to Raymond Mayewski, a profes- and the original, groundbreaking, very McCrory holds faculty positions in the sor of medicine and chief medical officer at cutting-edge research that the staff and sci- Departments of Mechanical Engineering the Medical Center, who was “instrumental in entists here have been able to undertake.” and of Physics and Astronomy. Since join- securing the funding for the McCrory Profes- McCrory credits the dedication of the ing the University in 1976, he has served as sorship from a grateful anonymous donor.” staff with the lab’s success. a member of the Faculty Senate (1986–89, “There are very few university labo- 1990–92, and 1994–96), and as the chair ratories in the country capable of doing leadership in 1995. He also oversaw the of the senate’s research policy committee what we have done—from building large construction of a second, four-beam sys- (1997). facilities on time and on budget to estab- tem known as OMEGA EP, which became Under President Thomas Jackson, he lishing itself as an international leader in operational in 2008. The $100 million-plus served as executive director of governmen- high-energy-density physics research,” facility can produce laser powers of over tal relations for the University from 1997 McCrory says. “It’s a tribute to the very 1,000-billion watts, and has kept LLE’s fa- to 2004. capable science and engineering team that cilities at the cutting edge of laser-science He received his bachelor’s and doctoral we have amassed here.” technology. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Created in 1970, the laboratory is home Under McCrory, the lab has established Institute of Technology. McCrory has au- to the Omega laser facility, the most pow- itself as a world leader in the study of inter- thored or coauthored more than 250 sci- erful laser facility housed at any university nal confinement fusion, an effort to investi- entific journal publications. Some of his and one of the most powerful of its kind in gate whether powerful lasers can compress key contributions to inertial fusion include the world. the atoms in fuels such as hydrogen to in- his work on the wavelength dependence of The system includes a 60-beam, high- duce nuclear fusion. hydrodynamic efficiency on laser-driven peak-power laser that was proposed, More recently, LLE has undertaken a targets and the hydrodynamic stability of funded, and completed under McCrory’s strategic effort to establish itself as a leading inertial fusion capsules.r

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STUDENT HISTORY: Jordan Smith ’18 (left) and Rebecca Mooney ’18 are the first all-women team to lead the Students’ Association.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT Meet the President and Vice President in the College . . . The 2017–18 academic year marked a mile- University’s administration. What else are you involved in? stone in the history of the Students’ Asso- Smith: Within those three broad sec- Smith: I’m a very peripheral member of ciation, the organization that represents tions, there are a few that really stand College Feminists. I love it, and I support students in the College. For the first time, out. One is financial aid. SA hasn’t really what they do, and I go to the events, but I an all-women team was elected to the top stepped up and addressed why some stu- don’t have time for a much heavier involve- two jobs in SA. President Jordan Smith ’18 dents in the past have had struggles with fi- ment. I’m involved in Greek Life, and I’m and Vice President Rebecca Mooney ’18 nancial aid. We’ve identified that as a main definitely very involved in Students’ Asso- campaigned on a platform focused on af- problem that’s very important to us. Anoth- ciation government. fordability and financial aid, student well- er is revitalizing the “It’s On Us” program, Mooney: I am a Meridian, a tour guide ness, and transparency. a national effort to raise awareness about for the Admissions office. I’m also presi- sexual misconduct on college campuses. dent of the Modern Languages and Cul- Jordan Smith ’18 SA was very involved in establishing the tures undergraduate council. And I tutor President, Students’ Association Rochester initiative several years ago, and elementary school children in the local New Boston, New Hampshire in the past few years. Rochester area once a week or so to learn Political science and economics major Spanish. What clout do you have in influencing Rebecca Mooney ’18 University policies? What’s your favorite class? Vice President, Students’ Association Smith: SA is a feedback organization, and Smith: Econ 108 with Professor Michael Barrington, Illinois we depend both on strong relationships Rizzo. Intro to Economics. It’s the best International relations and Spanish major with administrators and trust from the stu- class I’ve ever taken and will ever take. dent body. If we don’t have either of those, Professor Rizzo has a very unconvention- What are your priorities for the year? I think we lose a lot of our salience. It’s our al style of teaching. He steers you away Mooney: The approach we took to our job to really build both those. The main from charts and graphs as much as he can agenda was a 33-point, three-pillar plat- way we accomplish change is through hav- in that first year because he thinks it’s im- form that included affordability; the second ing strong relationships and being able to portant that you understand how it’s appli- was student wellness, and the third was say, “This is why this change would bene- cable to daily life. transparency and the structure of student fit students, and this would generate a lot Mooney: Mechanisms of Interna- government and our relationship with the of positive energy for your department.” tional Relations, which I took with Hein

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rr_Nov2017_InReview.indd 16 11/10/17 4:39 PM IN REVIEW Goemans, professor of political science. We wall. Every single year without fail. That’s the first person in that is my mom, who learned about game theory and the rational the first thing I see when I wake up in the really taught me from a young age to be an actor model as applied to interstate conflict. morning. individual, and who really instilled a lot of His project, which he discussed in our Smith: I brought a few of my favorite the values that I have today. class, is absolutely fascinating. It deals with books of all time that I find very comfort- Mooney: My dad is my biggest role the way that fluidity along state bound- ing and good to have around. model. He’s taught me the importance of aries in South America can affect civilian And ironically, I actually have a map of values, humility, and a good work ethic. perceptions of national identity. I enjoyed New Hampshire, but it’s from the 2012 From him, I’ve learned that you should learning about that because it gave me bet- election. So it’s our congressional map. I always remember where you came from ter insight as to why the world works the worked on that campaign, and that was and the people who have helped you along way that it does across state boundaries, my first experience in politics. The Obama the way.r which is what my major is all about. 2012 campaign. I have a map of New —Interview by Peter Iglinksi Hampshire where I’ve demarcated the ar- What did you bring to college from home? eas we won and where I worked. The interview is drawn from the University’s Mooney: This is a bit nerdy, I have to say. podcast series, Quadcast. Listen to the But every year since I was a freshman, Who inspires you? entire conversation at iTunes.apple.com/us/ I’ve brought a map of the congressional Smith: I’m inspired by a lot of the strong podcast/university-of-rochesters-quadcast/ districts of Illinois, and I hang it on my women in my life and in pop culture. But id1210770396.

. . .t and a the Eastman School of Music Naoki Toyomura ’17, ’18E (T5) and Seiji Yamashita ’20, ’20E were elected this fall to lead the Students’ Association at the East- man School of Music on a platform of improving communication between students and the Eastman administration.

Naoki Toyomura ’17, ’18E (T5) President, Students’ Association Eastman School of Music Auckland, New Zealand Piano performance major at Eastman; economics major in the College; Take Five Scholar, with a program called Japanese Language and Culture.

Seiji Yamashita ’20, ’20E Vice President, Students’ Association Eastman School of Music San Jose, California Jazz piano performance major at Eastman; international relations major in the College

What do you hope to accomplish? Toyomura: We feel there’s been a lack of dialog between the students and the administration regarding things that are important to students—dorm policy, food, where our money’s going, that kind of EASTMAN TEAM: Naoki Toyomura ’17, ’18E (T5), left, and Seiji Yamashita ’20, ’20E thing. We want to help improve that dialog and advocate for students. Toyomura: I’m very interested in business. Yamashita: I really like dogs. I’m on Yamashita: I think, additionally, we My business, Music Admit, is a higher educa- pretty much every dog Facebook page you want a more functional Students’ Associa- tion music admissions company. I take peo- can find. I have a German shepherd named tion. If that means having reports, having ple who come from overseas and help them Kenny at home. Dogs are a huge part of student data, and presenting it to the ad- find good schools and teachers. When I was my life. ministration in a clearer way, we’ll do that. going through the process, I knew the top Toyomura: I must say, his Snapchat and two or three schools, but I didn’t know each Instagram accounts do get pretty full of dog What would you like people to know school’s strengths or which teachers were videos and dog photos.r about you? better. My business helps in that regard. —Interview by Jim Mandelaro

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Worried about the Health of American Democracy? Political Scientists Offer a Second Opinion How robust is American democra- are performing here may be due, cy? A recent survey shows political at least in part, to their famil- scientists give it a more favorable iarity with other countries, such rating than the public does. as Venezuela, Hungary, Poland, The survey was conducted by or Turkey, which have witnessed Bright Line Watch, an organi- even greater democratic back- zation of political scientists at sliding recently.” Rochester, Yale, and Dartmouth On a 100-point scale, the dedicated to monitoring risks to experts gave the US political the US systems of government. system a health rating of 72. For “Far from being complacent, the public it was 59. On 27 dimen- the American public is in many sions of democratic performance ways more alarmed than political that survey respondents consid- scientists are about the health of BLU(ER) SKIES: A study suggests American political scientists rate the ered, the experts offered more health of American democracy more favorably than does the public. US democracy,” write the survey’s positive evaluations than the authors. “They are, for instance, Gretchen Helmke, a professor concerned about the state of US public on 16 of them, including less sanguine about the adminis- of political science at Rochester, democracy is hardly surprising, freedom of the press, the ability tration of elections and about pro- and a specialist on democratic given the extraordinarily low of citizens to make their opinions tections for free speech and less political institutions, the rule of approval ratings we are seeing heard, the political neutrality of certain that political parties can law, and Latin American politics, for Donald Trump,” she says. government agencies, and pro- compete freely and that people’s is a codirector of the organization. “That experts have a more tections against political violence. rights to protest are protected.” “The fact that the public is so positive view of how institutions —Sandra Knispel

FILMS OF WATER, WAVES OF LIGHT: An ultrathin film of water has proven to be a “surprisingly efficient” source of terahertz radiation, says Zhang. Physicists Make Waves Terahertz waves—a form of elec- liquid water, a scientific puzzle body and on Earth,” says Zhang. Along with Yiwen E, a post- tromagnetic radiation in the far that many in the research com- Previous researchers have doctoral associate in Zhang’s infrared frequency range—have munity believed to be impossible. generated terahertz waves from research group, Jin spent months attracted attention because of Now, as reported in a paper targets of solid crystals, metals, optimizing the thickness of the their ability to nondestructively published in Applied Physics Let- air plasma, and water vapor. water film and the incident angle, pass through solid objects to ters, Zhang, doctoral candidate “[Liquid] water was considered intensity, and pulse duration of produce images of the objects’ and lead author Qi Jin, and other the enemy of terahertz waves the laser beam. interiors. Their applications are members of Zhang’s terahertz because of its strong absorp- “Almost everybody thought we manifold, ranging from scanning research group have made the tion,” Zhang says. One of the wouldn’t be able to get a signal suspicious packages to detecting impossible, possible. challenges was creating a film of from water,” Jin says. “At first, I tooth decay. “Figuring out how to gener- water thin enough that terahertz didn’t believe it either.” For nearly a decade, Xi-Cheng ate terahertz waves from liquid photons generated by a laser As it turns out, Zhang says, Zhang, the M. Parker Givens water is a fundamental break- beam would not be absorbed, but water “is a surprisingly efficient Professor of Optics, has worked through because water is such an thick enough to withstand the terahertz source.” to produce terahertz waves from important element in the human laser’s energy. —Lindsey Valich

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rr_Nov2017_InReview.indd 18 11/13/17 12:43 PM DISCOVER Study Pokes Holes in Fetal Alcohol Hypothesis Closing a Pathway Exposure to alcohol in the womb toxic elements, scientists have the activity of the microglia in the to Cancer can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum speculated that alcohol may be brains of the mice and compare In human embryos, proteins of disorders (FASD), a condition that activating the cells and causing them to healthy animals. They the so-called “hedgehog” signal- causes lifelong physical and cog- them to either abandon their found that there was no difference ing pathway stimulate cells to nitive impairments, and for which role nurturing the connections in the activity of the microglia develop into different organs. In there is no available treatment. In between neurons or possibly between the two groups. adults, the pathway falls largely order to develop treatments for even mistakenly attacking neu- “While this work does not silent, except in certain tissues the condition—now diagnosed in rons they perceive as injured. prove that microglia do not that constantly regenerate roughly 1 percent of babies born But a study by Ania Majewska, respond to alcohol in different themselves, such as skin and the in the United States—researchers an associate professor in the brain areas or in different con- linings of blood vessels and the must pinpoint the precise biologi- Medical Center’s Department of texts of exposure, it does call into digestive tract. cal mechanisms by which alcohol Neuroscience, and Elissa Wong, a question a long-standing theory Unfortunately, several types of harms the developing neurologi- graduate student in Majewska’s and shows that, in some cases at cancer cells are able to reawaken cal system. lab, undermines that hypothesis. least, alcohol can elicit cognitive the dormant pathway, causing A prevailing hypothesis has Majewska and her colleagues dysfunction without engaging surrounding healthy cells to been that cells, or microglia, in tested the hypothesis by exposing microglia,” says Wong. “This in produce growth factors (proteins the developing brain’s immune mice to alcohol early in develop- turn suggests that microglia may or hormones that stimulate cell system play a key role. Because ment. Using a wide array of tech- not be the best therapeutic target growth) that help the cancer cells microglia are constantly monitor- niques, including genetic markers for treatment of FASD.” proliferate and metastasize. ing the environment in the brain and an advanced imaging technol- The study appeared in the In research published in the and become mobilized when they ogy called two-photon microscopy, journal Brain Behavior and Journal of the American Chemical detect infection, injury, or other the scientists were able to observe Immunity. —Mark Michaud Society, chemistry PhD student Andrew Owens, associate professor of chemistry Rudi Fasan, When Getting an Early Start May Be Bad for Mental Health and others in the Fasan lab, have identified a cyclic peptide that’s Parents, pediatricians, and able to block the activation of the educators have expressed pathway in live cells. growing concern in recent The pathway is activated when years that American teenag- a binding molecule produced ers have become chronically by cancer cells interacts with sleep-deprived. A Medical Center a receptor on the surface of study gauging the effects of healthy cells. The FDA approved a sleep on mental health suggests drug acting against the pathway one oft-mentioned remedy to in 2012, but it’s since been shown the problem—later school start that cancer cells become quickly times—may have benefits. resistant to it. The cyclic peptide The study, supported by the developed in Fasan’s lab uses a National Sleep Foundation and different mode of inhibition than published in Sleep Health, is “the the FDA-approved drug. first to really look at how school The next step will be to start times affect sleep quality, further optimize the peptide for even when a teen is doing every- increased potency, then proceed thing else right to get a good to animal trials. night’s sleep,” says Jack Peltz, The risk, as in any chemother- a clinical assistant professor in apy, is that the drug candidate psychiatry and the lead author. Fasan’s lab is developing will also Study participants, screened inhibit the pathway in healthy and controlled for a variety of skin, blood vessel, and digestive factors, were divided into two BRIGHT AND EARLY? A study suggests early school start times may tract tissues that rely on the groups: those who started school raise risks of teen anxiety and depression, regardless of sleep habits. pathway for normal regener- before 8:30 a.m. and those who ation. However, the fact that started after 8:30 a.m. (the anxiety symptoms across all “Our findings show that earlier a hedgehog pathway inhibitor recommended start time for students. However, students school start times seem to put was recently approved for use high schoolers by the American with good baseline sleep more pressure on the sleep pro- in cancer therapy holds promise Academy of Pediatricians). hygiene and earlier school start cess and increase mental health that the risks are outweighed by The results showed that times had higher average daily symptoms, while later school the benefits of inhibiting cancer good baseline sleep hygiene depressive/anxiety symptoms start times appear to be a strong growth, Fasan says. was directly associated with than their counterparts with later protective factor for teens,” —Bob Marcotte lower average daily depressive/ start times. says Peltz. —Christine Roth

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Dean of Libraries Leads Prize Goes to Novel of Family National Organization Pilgrimage Mary Ann Mavrinac, the Univer- communication and public poli- A multigenerational saga that sity’s vice provost and Andrew H. cies that affect research libraries chronicles the yearly summer and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of and the communities they serve. pilgrimage of a Jewish family to University of Rochester Librar- The organization’s aim is to their seaside cottage has won ies, began a term this fall as the transition research libraries from this year’s Janet Heidinger Kafka president of the Association of their roles as knowledge service Prize from the Susan B. Anthony Research Libraries. The asso- providers within a single uni- Institute for Gender, Sexuality, ciation represents 125 leading versity to become collaborative and Women’s Studies and the research libraries in the United partners in a broader ecosystem Department of English. States and Canada. of higher education. As Close to Us as Breathing by As president, Mavrinac is Before joining Rochester, Elizabeth Poliner, an associate charged with supporting the Mavrinac served for 11 years as ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT: professor of creative writing at nonprofit association’s mis- the chief librarian at the Universi- Mavrinac heads an association of Hollins University in Roanoke, sion of influencing scholarly ty of Toronto Mississauga. 125 leading research libraries. Virginia, was described as “nothing short of epic” by the University faculty committee that Program Connects selected the book. Students to Area’s The committee included Beth Jörgensen, a professor of Performing Arts Spanish, Katherine Mannheimer, A new initiative of the Institute an associate professor of English, for Performing Arts is helping and Jason Peck, a visiting assis- more students experience a tant professor of German. professional performance in the The novel follows the story of city of Rochester. three sisters and their families Supported in part by the whose idyllic summers at a Mantell Family Fund, which beloved family property on the was established by Dan ’82 and Connecticut shoreline are forever Marcia MacDonald Mantell ’83, altered by a terrible accident. the program makes free or Established in 1976 to honor steeply discounted tickets avail- its namesake, a young editor who able to University undergradu- was killed in a car accident just ates to see some of Rochester’s as her career was blossoming, top performances, including the the prize recognizes American Rochester Philharmonic Orches- women on the precipice of prom- TOP TEACHERS: Thomas Brown ’87 (PhD), Katherine Mannheimer, and tra, the Rochester Broadway The- ising writing careers. Sina Ghaemmaghami were recognized for their teaching. atre League, and Geva Theatre. Previous winners include John Covach, who directs Nobel laureate and Pulitzer both the Institute for Perform- Three Honored for Teaching Excellence Prize–winning American novelist ing Arts and the Institute for Faculty members from optics, College. The awards are named Toni Morrison and PEN/Faulk- Popular Music, says the goal of biology, and English are this for University Trustee and Board ner Award–winning author Ann the program is to give students year’s recipients of the Goergen Chair Emeritus Robert Goergen Patchett. opportunities to experience Award for Excellence in Under- ’60 and his wife, Pamela, who professional-level performances. graduate Teaching. created an endowed fund to Home to the Eastman School Thomas Brown ’87 (PhD), a establish and provide ongoing of Music and other music and professor of optics, Sina Ghaem- support for the awards. performing arts programs, maghami, an assistant professor Recipients are nominated by Rochester ranked in the top 20 of of biology, and Katherine Mann- the chairs of their departments the most vibrant arts communi- heimer, an associate professor of and chosen by Jeffrey Runner, ties in America, according to the English, were recognized during a dean of the College; Gloria Culver, third annual arts vibrancy index ceremony in October. dean of the School of Arts & by Southern Methodist Univer- Established in 1997, the award Sciences; and Wendi Heinzelman, sity’s National Center for Arts recognizes distinctive teaching dean of the Hajim School of Engi- Research. accomplishments of faculty in the neering & Applied Sciences.

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rr_Nov2017_InReview.indd 20 11/12/17 8:15 PM IN REVIEW Ask the Archivist: Where Have All the Cyclotrons Gone? A question for Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian

I worked on two cyclotrons at the University as part of my When the 130-inch cyclotron was shut down in September 1968, the physics degree: the small cyclotron with Harry Fulbright and University was a partner in the 33-billion-electron-volt (BeV) facility the 130-inch cyclotron with Charles Oxley. If memory serves, the at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and faculty and graduate small machine was shipped to India. But out of curiosity, did we students were also using the 10 BeV machine at Cornell University. just tear down the larger cyclotron or was it shipped elsewhere? “What do you do with a 2,000-ton particle accelerator that you How do you dispose of a 1,100-ton magnet?—Bill Skillman ’54 don’t need any more and nobody else wants?” asked a November 5, (MS), Catonsville, Maryland 1970, University press release. It turned out that it was wanted. The electromagnet—26 feet long, 11 feet wide, 17 feet high—was cut into The small cyclotron, installed in Bausch & Lomb Hall, was designed 40-ton blocks and shipped to Batavia, Illinois, to be used as shielding and built by Professor Sidney Barnes. It had a 26-inch diameter and material at the National Accelerator Laboratory—now called FermiLab, began operation in 1935. By the time you worked with it, the device and celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017. had been converted by Professor Fulbright from its original purpose No discussion of the cyclotrons would be complete without mention- to a “variable energy machine.” It was shut down on October 11, 1965, and shipped one year later, as you recall, to India as a teaching tool at Kurukshetra Uni- versity. Within a few years it was relocated to Chandigarh, where it continues to operate. The Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator built on the South Campus replaced that “baby” cyclotron as a research tool, producing 240 million electron volts to the latter’s seven. Nicknamed “the Emperor,” it was in operation from 1966 to 1995. In 1946, pioneering physics professor Lee DuBridge initiated a project to create a new, larger cyclotron that would receive funding from the United States Navy for construction, while the LIFE CYCLE OF A CYCLOTRON: Built on campus in the late 1940s (above), the University’s 130-inch cyclotron operations were run and funded operated on campus for 20 years before being repurposed at FermiLab in Batavia, Illinois. by the University. It would be located on the edge of campus, near the steam plant and the railroad ing the “Duck Pond,” which in addition to providing a pastoral setting, tracks. appears to have powered a small rumor mill. Eric Chandler, foreman Everything about the construction of what was to be the world’s sec- of the cyclotron shop, remembered “an artesian well was dug at the ond-largest cyclotron was newsworthy. The eight steel forgings of the [cyclotron] site to provide cooling water,” and that there was already magnet were transported from Homestead, Pennsylvania, on specially a boggy area, possibly the remnants of a adapted railcars capable of safely carrying the heavy loads. water hazard when the Oak Hill Country Club Need History? The buildings for the cyclotron were located near the railroad tracks occupied the land. A 1968 Rochester Review Do you have a ques- that carried coal to the heating plant, roughly where Goergen Hall article affirms that the pond “was created by tion about University and the Computer Studies Building stand today. To reach that area the outflow of water used to cool the accel- history? Email it to required creating what the New York Times called the “world’s shortest erator’s magnet,” and thus never froze. The rochrev@rochester. single-gauge railroad.” The 473-foot spur was named the Cyclotron and ducks arrived around 1950: Easter gifts grown edu. Please put “Ask Southern Railroad by physics staff because, they said, “It starts at the too large, perhaps. Was the pond water safe the Archivist” in the Cyclotron and runs south.” A special trestle was erected to support the for them? The ducks were examined in 1954 subject line. work of winding the 64-ton magnetic coil, which consisted of 16 miles and received a clean bill of health. Did their of welded, 4-inch wide aluminum strips, each 5/16ths of an inch thick. numbers diminish annually around Thanks- Twenty years after it began working in 1948, the equipment was giving? The records in the Archives are mercifully silent, though there outdated. “We have almost exhausted the experiments we could do is a recipe for “Roast Wild Duck with Wild Rice Stuffing” in the 1949 here,” said Edward Thorndike, then an associate professor of physics. University cookbook, A Faculty for Cooking.

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GO, YELLOWJACKETS Field Hockey Claims First Liberty League Title; Advances to Elite Eight Rochester’s field hockey team claimed its first ever Liberty League title Division III tournament, where they advanced to the round of eight this fall, going undefeated in league play during the season and in the before falling to second-ranked Middlebury. conference tournament. The Yellowjackets won 10 straight games to close out the regular The league title gave the Yellowjackets a first-round bye in the NCAA season and the league tournament. They finished the year at 18–4.

PRESEASON PICKS Women Picked to Win UAA With four starters returning, the Rochester women’s basketball team is the preseason favorite to win the University Athletic As- sociation title this year. The 2017–18 season, which begins in mid-November, marks the first time that the women have been picked to win the conference. The preseason selections are based on votes cast by the league’s head coaches. The women finished 8–6 in the eight- team UAA last year, placing third behind champion Washington University and runner-up University of Chicago. Roch- ester was 18–9 overall, advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament. On the men’s side, the Yellowjackets are picked to finish fourth in the conference. Defending UAA champion Washington University is predicted to repeat. The men were 10–4 in the league last year, second behind Washington, and 24–5 overall. The Yellowjackets advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAAs before losing to top-ranked Whitman College.r

Follow the Yellowjackets at FRONT-RUNNERS: Three-time All-American Alexandra Leslie ’18 and the Yellowjackets are Uofrathletics.com. preseason favorites to win the conference title; the men are predicted to finish fourth.

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FINAL SEASON: Scott Greene completed his 12th and final season this fall as the program’s third-winningest coach. Football Coach Steps Down The Yellowjackets football team will start the 2018 season with a new coach. That’s after head coach Scott Greene announced this fall that he would not be returning to the sideline next year. Since taking over in 2006, Greene has compiled a record of 50–64, placing him third in career coaching wins behind El- TOURNAMENT TESTED: For the fifth time in the past six years, the men’s soccer team received a mer Burnham (17 years, 1944–60, 82 wins) bid to the NCAA Division III tournament. and Peter (Pat) Stark (15 years, 1969–83, 69 wins). NCAA During Greene’s tenure, Rochester football players have earned a total of seven Men’s Soccer Reaches Elite Eight Academic All-America honors from the The men’s soccer team capitalized on its sixth-ranked Oneonta in the second round, College Sports Information Directors of trademark defense to advance to the round and 16th-ranked Amherst College in the America. of eight in the NCAA Division III tourna- Sweet 16. And from the spring of 2011 through ment for the first time since 2009. The 2017 appearance was Rochester’s the spring of 2017, 38 players were named The Yellowjackets fell 2–0 to ninth- 18th NCAA tournament, including five in to the Hampshire Honor Society as an- ranked Messiah College, ending a tour- the last six years. The team finished at 14– nounced by the National Football Founda- nament run that included victories over 4–3, the most victories since 2013, when the tion. In 2014, Rochester had 13 honorees, Connecticut College in the first round, Yellowjackets made it to the round of 16.r the most of any college in the nation.r

HALL OF FAME Yellowjackets Recognized for Achievements Six people who helped to shape Rochester’s athletics legacy were inducted into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame at a special ceremony during Meliora Weekend. The 2017 class includes (back row) Peter (Rick) Stark ’79, three-year starting quarterback on the football team; Philip Newman ’79, All-ECAC defensive end for the football team; (front row) Andrea Haveman-Semper ’94, an All-American member of the women’s soccer team; Rebekah Penfold Meeker ’96, an All-American volleyball player; Tara Carrozza Vinchiarello ’05, three-year captain on the women’s basketball team; and Kirsten Clark ’97, an All-American swimmer. —Dennis O’Donnell

ATHLETICS AND RECREATION (SOCCER AND GREENE); SUSAN KOST (HALL OF FAME) November–December 2017 ROCHESTER REVIEW 23 SING OUT! Leyla Mouli ’19 leads the a cappella ensemble PASApella at the A Cappella Jam, where student and alumni groups put on a musical showcase.

MELIORA WEEKEND 2017 Wonderful Weekend Near record numbers of alumni, students, parents, faculty, and friends celebrate their connections to the University during the 2017 edition of Rochester’s signature fall event.

DREAM BIG: “Sometimes our dreams and goals might not look like we thought they would, but they are every bit as gratifying,” said keynote speaker and ABC’s Good Morning America host Robin Roberts (top).

MORE MELIORA: The motto took center stage across the University, from the Memorial Art Gallery (left) to the Eastman School of Music, the Medical Center, and the Eastman Quadrangle on the River Campus.

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rr_Nov2017_Meliora.indd 25 11/13/17 9:50 AM HONORED GUESTS: Jazz legends Chick Corea (at keyboard) and Steve Gadd ’68E (drums) performed a sold-out concert, during which they were awarded honorary degrees from the University. University Trustee Hugo Sonnenschein ’61 also received an honorary degree (see page 52).

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 26 11/10/17 3:09 PM TALKING POINTS: LEARNING Peggy Noonan OPPORTUNITIES: (above), Pulitzer Elsie Scott, founding Prize–winning colum- director of the nist for the Wall Street Ronald W. Walters Journal, delivered a Leadership and keynote talk at the Public Policy Center annual Presidential at Howard University Symposium, where (top), delivered the she and President and keynote address at CEO Joel Seligman had the Stanton/Anthony a lively conversation. Breakfast, while Ahmed Ghazi of the School of Medicine and Dentistry (above) was among the faculty members who LIGHTER SIDE: shared their research Comedian Mike and scholarship Birbiglia (right), in presentations known for his roles throughout the in Orange Is the New weekend. Black and Trainwreck, entertained late-night audiences.

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 27 11/10/17 3:09 PM SELFIE SPOT: Classmates Joanne Cosiol ’97, Colette Linzmeyer Stanzler ’97, and Erica Kuntz Moor ’97 pose for photos on the balcony of Rush Rhees Library.

COUNTERPOINT: “America has developed—and this is not a recent phenomenon—an allergy to nuance and complexity, which has turned into an appetite for a simple answer,” said Miller’s Court panelist John Sexton ’05 (Honorary), NYU president emeritus and a University trustee (right). “This allergy, at this point, is potentially a toxic fever celebrating ignorance. Counterpoints to that are events like this.” Joining Sexton were University President and CEO Joel Seligman and other experts for the annual roundtable hosted by legal analyst and scholar Arthur Miller ’56, ’08 (Honorary).

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 28 11/10/17 3:09 PM THE BIG ‘R’: George GAMES & FUN: Despite VanderZwaag, strong defensive director of athletics stops by linebacker and recreation, Josh Churchin ’18 and University and cornerback Trustee Stephen Ricky Sparks ’18, the Biggar ’92 (right) Yellowjackets came talk in the atrium up short in the annual of the new Genesee homecoming game Hall, overlooking (top). Throughout the Brian F. Prince the weekend, Wilson Athletic Complex. Quadrangle was In recognition of transformed into a leadership gift Meliora Village from Biggar and (above), a festive his wife, Elisabeth gathering space Asaro-Biggar ’92, that featured the entryway to the carnival games, food Boehning Varsity trucks, and musical House in Genesee Hall performances. has been named the Big “R” Atrium.

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rr_Nov2017_Meliora.indd 29 11/10/17 4:52 PM ‘A School They Now Call Their Own’ In 2014, a Rochester high school was on the brink of closure. Since then, a partnership with the University has helped East High School to forge a new culture and commitment to revival.

By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD)

NEW BEGINNINGS: Faculty and staff, dressed in East gear, welcome students on the first day of school in September 2015—also the first day of school under the educational partnership between East and the University.

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 31 11/12/17 8:02 PM here’s an ease about Shaun Nelms ’13W (EdD) as he walks the VETERAN TEACHER: East graduate and chemistry teacher corridors of East High School. At a commanding height of six Larry Neal ’75—pictured with 10th grader Sharay McKnight— foot three, in his navy blue suit and misty pink tie, he’s the face returned to Rochester in the 1990s after a career in the Navy of reform in an institution that went adrift, the calm captain of with “the sole objective of teaching at East High School.” a ship in rough waters. When Nelms began his role as school superintendent two break one up in while—knock on wood, he says. years ago, East’s projected graduation rate for 2015–16 hov- There are more bright spots. The partnership has Tered at around 20 percent—just one out of every five kids who started as a ninth brought expanded offerings and student participation in grader in 2012 was on target to leave with a diploma in June 2016. By 2020, the sports and the arts, and made improvements in culinary New York State Education Department would expect the graduation rate to and optical programs that combine professional training reach 80 percent. and experience. The school newspaper, which had gone As East navigates toward that distant target, it’s not just the state that’s watch- defunct, is back, under a new name, the Eagle Express. ing. It’s hopeful East alumni, whom Nelms briefs and leads on tours of the school. Eighth graders have traveled to Washington, D.C., and It’s the nearby businesses and nonprofits that are contributing time, money, and sixth graders to Montreal, on field trips that are par for expertise. It’s the city school district, and the local press corps that’s followed the course in nearby suburban districts, but never before East’s long decline, as well as the emergence of the educational partnership or- part of the curriculum at East. This past summer, three ganization—the University of Rochester—that agreed to manage the school, un- East High science students watched as NASA’s SpaceX der revamped curricula, renegotiated labor contracts with teachers, and a host of Dragon spacecraft shot off to the International Space Sta- new initiatives, crafted over a yearlong period beginning in the summer of 2014. tion with their science experiment aboard—one of just 21 It’s now the beginning of year three—and some key numbers have started to projects from high school students in the United States move. and Canada to receive the honor (see “A Science Project A major predictor of whether any student will graduate from high school is if That’s Far Out,” page 36). that student passes the ninth grade. At the end of the 2014–15 school year, few- But despite all these achievements, there’s sobering er than half of East’s ninth graders did so. But in both years under the EPO, that news as well. The graduation rate, among the most im- number has climbed above 75 percent. portant metrics the state uses to measure the effective- Meanwhile, suspensions and fights have dropped dramatically. More than 90 ness of its public high schools, is still a hair under 50 percent of students reported in a recent survey that they feel safe at East. Fam- percent. It’s just one illustration of how deep the crisis ilies have responded positively to new initiatives designed to support students had become at East. socially and emotionally. From his office in LeChase Hall, Stephen Uebbing, a People who’ve worked at the school for years point to a discernible change professor of educational leadership at the Warner School in the whole culture and feel of the place. It’s less chaotic, says a social worker. of Education, watches the progress. Project director of The kids say “hello” more—and leave fewer messes in the cafeteria, a custodian the EPO, he was a key architect of the plan, and served as observes. There’s less fighting, says a student. A teacher agrees. He hasn’t had to East superintendent in the first year of the partnership.

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rr_Nov2017_East.indd 32 11/13/17 11:57 AM He’s buoyed by some of the progress. He notes, for example, that among the students in regular attendance for the past two years, the graduation rate last spring was clos- er to 60 percent. On the other hand, he concedes, “This is not risk-free. We can fail. We can fail in other people’s eyes even though we may succeed in our own eyes and in the eyes of the kids and teachers.” Nonetheless, it’s the kind of project that a small number of universities with top-flight education schools are taking on. Johns Hopkins University has partnered with an East Baltimore K–8 school, now known as Hender- son–Hopkins, while the University of California at Los Angeles has joined forces with multiple area schools. Last spring, the University’s partnership with East attracted the attention of the leading trade publication, the Chronicle of Higher Education. In an interview, Uni- versity President and CEO Joel Seligman explained the stakes—and why the complex project is so important to undertake. “The key is not to assume this is easy. This is really hard,” he said. But “if you only do safe projects, you don’t advance your communities.”

A storied institution When you tell people where you work, almost without fail, someone you’re talking with either went to East High School, or knows someone who went to East High School. And nowadays, the first question they ask you is, “How are you guys doing?” ‘A TWO-WAY STREET’: That’s how Warner School professor Larson (above) describes Larry Neal ’75 Chemistry teacher, Upper School her approach to educational research. “I know I have been completely changed,” East High School Class of 1971 says Larson, who chairs the research committee at East.

East High School, 120 years old, has an estimated 20,000 living alumni, and Larry Neal ’75 is one of them. After What Can We Learn Together? graduation, an NROTC scholarship enabled him to at- As researchers bring evidence-based practices to East, tend the University, where he studied chemistry. Since they learn a few things, too. 1998, he’s been a chemistry teacher at East. Neal served in the Navy for 20 years in roles that in- Helping to turn around a struggling school ranks easily as the hardest thing Joanne cluded flying planes off aircraft carriers. He shares the Larson has ever undertaken, allows the Michael W. Scandling Professor of Educa- story with his students. “I’ve got a couple of videos I show tion at the Warner School. “Working with some 1,300 teenagers, many of whom had them,” he says. “I tell them, ‘I used to do this.’ And they been undertaught and underserved, was an eye-opening experience,” she says. say, ‘whoa.’ ” Neal also works in stories of his days deliv- As researchers document the changes at East, they are presented with a plethora ering newspapers and working at a local grocer, the Star of opportunities for studies. Larson, as chair of the research committee at East, acts Market. “I kind of show them the arc of my life, so they as both a cheerleader and a gatekeeper—to make sure that research serves the know I came from someplace.” school’s needs, and not just those of the researcher. After a brief stint in the private sector, he left his job, Larson helps bring evidence-based practices to East classrooms, staff, administra- following some advice from his chemistry teacher at East, tors, and teachers. That’s resulted in a lot of change, she says, sometimes challenging Jean Slattery ’74W (EdD), who had long before planted practitioners’ long-held beliefs. “It’s hard work and there’s a lot of friction—generative the idea in his mind of teaching in Rochester city schools. friction—that is producing change,” she says. “Part of my job as a researcher here is to He sold his home in Virginia Beach and moved to Roch- watch what that change is and what’s going to happen” as a result. ester so he could pursue his “sole objective of teaching In other words, Larson is learning, too, and that’s as it should be. “I know I have at East High School.” been completely changed. I think anybody who spends any time here will be trans- This kind of devotion to the school is not unusual, says formed,” she notes. Neal, whose siblings and in-laws all went to East, and Research at East is the foundation of a larger initiative, Warner’s Center for whose son, Jeffrey, has started there as a teaching assis- Urban Education Success, directed by East project director Stephen Uebbing and tant this year. Rebecca Laske, a counselor in the Low- codirected by Larson. Launched in 2016, it aims to share findings at East widely er School, tells a similar story. One of six siblings, all of among researchers in urban education and eventually create models that can be whom went to East, she graduated in 2005. Her brother, adapted elsewhere. To be sure, any model coming out of the center will be far from Paul Conrow, who graduated in 1995, now teaches science a rigid blueprint, and call for the kind of ongoing research partnership Larson is and directs the precision optics program at the school. overseeing at East. “I’ve always been proud of where I went to school,” she “Authentic partnerships need relationships,” she says. “You can’t just come in, do says. “There have always been a lot of positive things go- a study, and leave.” Those relationships “are for life.” ing on in this building, back from when I was a student.” —Sandra Knispel

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rr_Nov2017_East.indd 33 11/13/17 11:57 AM School Snapshot Stories vary about exactly when it started, but at some point, this bedrock institution began to crumble. Over time, the Rochester City School District got a lot poorer. Middle-class “white flight” to the suburbs, which began decades ago, East High School opened in 1903 on Alexander Street. accelerated, while more recently, middle-class African-American and Puerto Ri- After outgrowing that building, it reopened at the current can flight have piled onto the district’s challenges. East is now the largest school location on East Main Street, in 1959. in a district with a child poverty rate nearing 50 percent, which makes the Roch- More than 16 languages are spoken by students at East, ester City School District’s population the second poorest of any district’s in the who have come from Puerto Rico, Burma, Nepal, Bosnia, nation, surpassed only by Detroit. Sudan, China, among other territories and nations. Nearly Laske notes that while city high schools such as the School of the Arts and 200 students are learning English as a new language, and the Joseph Wilson Magnet School have selection criteria, East has been—and re- approximately 10 percent participate in East’s English- mains—an open school. That won’t change under the partnership. “All you have Spanish dual-language education program. to do is sign up, show up,” says Uebbing. “There’s no minimal score. You don’t have to have a clean record with the law.” Approximately 80 percent of students at East are East reached a crisis point in March 2014, when the state’s education depart- classified as economically disadvantaged. ment, citing persistently low academic performance, issued an ultimatum to East Major Metrics that included the options of a phase out or closure. In response, the president of the city school board approached Warner School Dean Raffaella Borasi as well Since the partnership with the University began in as Seligman about forming a partnership to manage East. September 2015, East has measured progress according Uebbing says it’s an important point that the initiative came from the school to a variety of data points. Completion of ninth grade is board. Occasionally, a media outlet, or someone in conversation, will refer to the a key predicter of graduation. Attendance also plays a partnership as the University’s “take over” of East. It’s a linguistic shortcut that major role. misrepresents the relationship that Warner School leaders worked hard to establish. Following the state’s approval of the partnership in the summer of 2014, a 9TH GRADERS MOVING TO 10TH GRADE team of Warner School faculty members spent months conducting meetings and 100 percent focus groups with teachers, parents, students, and others most closely involved 80 with daily life at East. Those conversations were followed by sweeping changes, 60 including a longer school day, overhauled curricula, a new approach to student discipline, mandated professional development for teachers, and a new collab- 40 orative approach to instruction. Partnership leaders also renegotiated contracts 20 with three separate unions to account for the added work and responsibilities, 0 requested a new budget from the district and state, and required in early 2015 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 that all staff members who wanted to continue to work at the school reapply for their jobs, promising commitment to a new motto, “All in, all the time.” AVERAGE9TH GRADERS DAILY AVERAGE ATTENDANCE DAILY ATTENDANCE New Continuing ¹ As an effort under pressure to show dramatic results, according to a predeter- 100 percent Lower School Upper School mined set of measures, the partnership might easily have focused narrowly on 80 80 enhancing academic supports. Those are important components, but the plan is 60 much broader than that. It includes new measures to help students develop social and emotional skills, and practices designed to build strong relationships be- 40 tween and among teachers, students, school leaders, and families. It seeks, above 20 20 all, a cultural transformation in which stakeholders achieve a sense of ownership 0 in their relationship to the school. The idea is that for academic achievement to 2014–152014–15 ¹ 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 to date take place, there has to be an environment to support it. ¹ Did not pass 9th grade the previous year ² Separate data for new and continuing students not available BEHAVIORAL INCIDENTS AND SUSPENSIONS 3000 Fights Suspensions ‘All in, all the time’ 2,513 2500 People say, “So how’s East, what do you think of East?” And I’m always like, “I’m 2000 optimistic; I’m optimistic for so many reasons.” For me, personally, I live right down the street. These are our kids. If they’re not in school, and they’re out in the 1500 streets making bad choices, they’re on our streets. They’re in our community. 1000 906 Michelle Garcia, LCSW Lower School Social Worker 500 476 230 126 80 0 13 40 East isn’t a neighborhood school in the traditional sense, and hasn’t been since 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 to date 2002, when the city school district adopted a choice model, allowing students and parents to apply to schools throughout the city. Most students at East don’t GRADUATION RATES live in the Beechwood neighborhood that abuts the school’s sprawling building 100 percent at the corner of East Main Street and Culver Road. 80 Neighborhood residents like Michelle Garcia, a Lower School social worker at 60 East, hope that as the school makes progress, more kids from the neighborhood will seek to go to East, strengthening burgeoning ties between the school and its 40 environs, expanding the community of stakeholders ready to go “all in” for East. 20 Garcia has been a social worker at East for five years, and elsewhere in the dis- 0 trict for six years before that. 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rr_Nov2017_East.indd 34 11/13/17 11:57 AM experienced traumatic events. Since the partnership began, she’s seen a significant expansion in the staff of counselors and social workers. “The staff and students always wanted to be successful, but the barriers to that success were immense,” she says, referring to her years at the school prior to the EPO. Garcia cites a change in climate that she credits, in large part, to two major initiatives brought about by the partnership. One is an approach to discipline called restorative practices. In contrast to more traditional methods of discipline, it recognizes that bad behavior—fighting, verbal abuse, and other forms of disrespect that can take place in a school setting—often happen because kids don’t have the skills to handle conflict in other ways. They also may not have formed relationships with the people around them that are conducive to building mutual respect. When a conflict occurs between students at East, they’ll FOUNDATIONS: Nurse practitioner Joan Stack examines student Annan Lamin at sit together, sometimes in Garcia’s office. “There’s a se- East’s School-Based Health Center, a partnership with the School of Nursing. ries of questions that we ask,” says Garcia, describing the facilitation that she and other adults at East initiate with the students. “What happened? What were you thinking The Nurse Practitioners Are In and feeling at the time? What are you thinking and feel- At an on-site clinic, practitioners from the School of ing now? Who was affected, and what needs to happen to make things right?” When adults take this approach, Nursing provide basic health care to students at East. “kids often times will find the solutions themselves, as Annan Lamin leaves her class, heads down an unadorned hallway, and sits among a opposed to adults finding the solutions for them.” row of mismatched chairs opposite the entrance of East’s School-Based Health Center. The restorative practices approach is not new, and She’s waiting to see one of the nurse practitioners from the University’s School of many schools and institutions have adopted it, says Laske, Nursing who staff the full-service clinic that provides free comprehensive physical who works alongside Garcia as a counselor in the Lower and mental health services at East Upper and Lower Schools. School. She used it in her previous job as a K–8 counselor In a school in which more than half the students live in poverty, the center at the Urban Choice Charter School in Rochester. But un- makes access to quality health care significantly less challenging than it might be der the partnership at East, in accordance with the school otherwise. With parent or guardian permission to enroll in the program, students motto “All in, all the time,” every staff member has been can visit the clinic at any time for any service, and no out-of-pocket expenses are trained in it, and Laske says that makes a big difference. incurred. The nurse practitioners help students manage chronic conditions such as There’s a consistency in the way that adults in the build- diabetes and asthma, diagnose and treat acute illness and injuries, offer physical ing address problems as they see them arise. “Kids pick up and mental health assessments and mental health therapy, provide birth control on that,” she says. “We’re modeling for them all the time.” services, and dispense medications. University physicians are also available for Nelms says the use of restorative practices is a means collaboration and consultation. “to create a safe space for dissent to occur.” And students “I come here a lot. It’s convenient,” says Lamin. have taken advantage of it. He’s had students approach It’s convenient for parents as well. “Some students do have primary care they him to tell them they’re going to be in a fight—and they access, but it means parents have to miss work,” says Kim Urbach ’98N (MS), direc- don’t want to fight. Students have taken to giving teach- tor of the school-based health center program and an assistant professor of clinical ers a heads-up if they think some of their peers may be nursing at Rochester. brewing for a fight. And those teachers, now trained in re- In the 2016–17 school year, more than 1,100 students at East were enrolled in the storative practices, are equipped to help diffuse tensions, program and made more than 3,100 visits. The most frequent reason for visits to and steer students toward more productive ways of ad- the center—cited in 34 percent of all visits—was mental health or behavioral issues. dressing disputes. The effects have been dramatic, as the “The mental health services are incredibly important. The population has numbers of fights in the Upper School, as well as suspen- experienced a lot of trauma both personally and secondhand,” says Urbach, noting sions, have plummeted (see “Major Metrics,” page 34). that the clinic uses questionnaires in its physical exams to help uncover signs of Working in tandem with restorative practices is a sec- potential behavioral concerns. “The physical health services act as a ‘back door’ ond initiative, the family group. Every student at East is into the mental health services.” assigned to one. Family groups are groups of around 10 stu- The center at East predates the University’s formal partnership with the school. dents who meet daily with their “carents”—a pair of teach- It was established in 1995 with funding from a New York State Department of ers or staff who relate to the group as “caring parents.” For Health grant. The School of Nursing also supports a school-based health center at students who may have few caring adults in their lives, the the Frederick Douglass Campus. group is designed to provide consistent social and emotion- “We don’t make any money on this,” says Kathy Rideout ’95W (EdD), dean of the al support in a quasi-family structure. For those students School of Nursing and vice president of the Medical Center. “This is a service we’re who don’t lack for caring adults in their lives, the group is providing to keep our kids healthy. an important means of finding a place among the nearly “The healthier our kids are, the healthier they’ll be as adults. Even at the most 1,300 students bused to the school from all over the city. basic level, we’re succession planning for the next generation of adults. Many of Family groups are composed so that, ideally, all stu- these individuals are living in abject poverty. They need to have the proper health dents will find in them some comfort of the familiar, but care so that they can think better, learn more, and really be able to succeed.” also some reflection of the diversity of the student body. —Patrick Broadwater

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rr_Nov2017_East.indd 35 11/13/17 11:58 AM Sofia Gazali, a senior who came to East last year, says in family group “we talk about different subjects—everything.” At her previous school, Gazali, a Muslim, says some of the students would make fun of her headscarf. But it hasn’t happened at East, something she attributes in part to the climate established through family groups. There have been other benefits. Although family groups aren’t designed to offer academic support directly, carents are attentive to students’ academic progress, and Gazali, who is applying to colleges this year, says her carents have provided her helpful advice on her applications. For students less focused than Gazali, the family group is one more means through which adults and peers can deliver a collective message—that they’re important, their futures are important, and there’s a community right there that wants them to succeed.

PREPARE FOR LAUNCH: Chemistry students Tailor Davis Ninth grade, the pivotal year (left) and Binti Mohamed prepare the experiment they and classmate De’aunte Johnson sent into space last summer. As a ninth grader, I really made a big change . . . I had a lot of people telling me that ninth grade was a very important year. I didn’t really take [school] as seriously until I actually made it to ninth grade. They told me that if I didn’t have A Science Project certain credits, I wouldn’t make it to the 10th. And I knew that I didn’t focus, which is why I stopped surrounding myself with negative people. That’s Far Out Nashalie Guzman 10th grader Three East students watch as a rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral with When Nashalie Guzman started at East as a seventh grader, “there were a lot of fights,” she says. And “a lot of drama, constantly.” She allowed herself to get drawn their science experiment on board. in. And then, last year, as a student in the Freshman Academy, she changed her atti- On a Monday in August, when they might otherwise tude. “Now I have a lot of people who look up to me, they ask me for help,” she says. have been savoring the waning days of summer vaca- Created under the EPO, the academy surrounds ninth graders with intensive tion, De’aunte Johnson, Binti Mohamed, and Tailor support. Academy classrooms occupy their own wing of the sprawling school Davis gathered in the East High School library with their building, keeping older students, for the most part, at a distance. chemistry teacher, Mary Courtney, to watch the launch of While the criteria for moving from one grade to the next include parental dis- the SpaceX CRS-12 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida. On cretion in the lower grades, that changes once students reach the ninth grade. To board the rocket were small containers of fluid, part of an advance to 10th, students must pass five classes. Among the classes ninth graders experiment the students were conducting entitled “The typically take are Algebra and Global History, and in New York State, students are Effect of Microgravity on the Deterioration of Chlorophyll required to pass statewide regents exams in both subjects. These exams, which in Phytoplankton.” constitute two of the five regents exams required in New York State, are consid- The project began in 2016, when NASA’s Student ered by many teachers among the steepest hurdles to high school graduation. Spaceflight Experiments Program had students across Leda Williams-Matthews ’88, ’89W (MS) has been teaching social studies at the nation compete to create research proposals to test East High since 1989, and she teaches Global History in the Freshman Academy. the effects of microgravity. Johnson, Mohamed, and Davis She’s among the educators who’ve long known that there’s a big developmental impressed a local review board and went on to make gap between kids ages 14 and 15, and kids ages 16. “Many students come into the East one of only 21 schools chosen to have an experiment ninth grade without the habits and skills they need to have,” she says. aboard “Mission 11” to the International Space Station. That’s true of ninth graders from highly educated, affluent families as well, Their experiment tested how quickly chlorophyll would who often arrive in high school with nascent organizational skills and a high lev- degrade in the condition of microgravity, part of an effort el of distractibility. But those traits have deeper consequences for many students to learn how organisms, in this case phytoplankton, might at East, who often enter high school lacking the reading and writing skills that be able to survive in space without sunlight or gravity. Williams-Matthews says are critical to passing the Global History regents exam, Courtney challenged her students to think about the and the foundational math skills that her colleagues in the math department say influence their research could have. “I think when you are equally essential to the Algebra exam. take a science project like this, and show kids how it can The EPO has taken a number of steps to address the problem. The addition of have real-world applications,” she says, “it really builds sixth grade to the Lower School allowed teachers at East an extra year under the on everything that we’re trying to do and it reinforces the new model to work with students on basic skills. Support periods were added whole U of R research philosophy.” to students’ schedules, taking place in designated rooms staffed by people like For the students, that real-world application relates Nicole Bak, a special education teacher with multiple certifications as well as to climate change. If Earth became uninhabitable, says a doctorate in educational psychology. In year one, says Bak, who works main- Johnson, who graduated last spring and is a student at ly with the Freshman Academy, she had one room. Halfway through that year, the College at Brockport, we would “have to have a plan she got a second room. Now, in year three, she circulates through three rooms, in place. If we can figure out the oxygen part first, we can adjoined by a narrow hallway, where she, two other support teachers, a literacy work on the other parts subsequently.” consultant, and a group of volunteers, provide homework help, test preparation, There was a bonus to the project: art students practice in foundational skills, and track the overall progress of each student. designed mission patches to accompany the experiment “Kids actually want homework, oddly enough,” says Bak, who fielded many on its voyage. As the vials of phytoplankton sped across requests for homework in the first weeks of the school year. “I think part of the space, the East Eagle mascot flew right along with them. reason is that we’ve created this environment where they can come and get help, —Theresa Danylak and so it’s not piling up.”

36 ROCHESTER REVIEW November–December 2017 Williams-Matthews says the support rooms and other new resources have pro- GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A social studies teacher at East High vided much of what teachers have long said they’d need to help their students since 1989 and a self-described product of urban schools, achieve state benchmarks. “In years past, it was always about not having the Leda Williams-Matthews ’88, ’89W (MS) aims to inspire supports that we needed to have our kids be successful,” she says. “They need- students to succeed “in spite of their circumstances.” ed more counselors, more social workers, more teachers. Now we have it all.” Still, it will require teachers like Williams-Matthews to be “all in, all the time,” have principals who serve as the building leaders. In a to continue the dramatic improvements that have taken place in the Freshman climate survey conducted by an outside organization last Academy. Raised in Syracuse and the self-described product of urban schools, she spring, more than 90 percent of faculty respondents re- says she made it to the University because of the teachers and family members ported trust in their building leader and confidence that who made it clear that “great things were expected of Leda.” As she moves about their leaders cared about them and the challenges they her classroom of 10th-grade Global History students—the ones who didn’t pass faced. At the close of year two, Nelms declared East “a the class the first time around—she has one message to deliver. “I get it. Life can school that they now call their own.” get tough. But they must believe that their circumstances can change, and will Mutual trust will continue to be important, as these change, if they’re willing to work hard. And consistently work hard.” partners are together for the long haul. Although the EPO is technically a five-year plan, it’s likely that it will take longer than that for East to reach all the key bench- A work in progress marks the state has set. Nelms won’t venture any predictions about where Every step of the way, we keep asking ourselves, how can we make many of the metrics will land, either at the end of this a school that’s failing better? year, or at the end of the five-year period. But he’s Shaun Nelms ’13W (EdD) Superintendent, East Upper and Lower Schools watched as students in the lower grades have risen through the school and are now reaching the upper There’s been little about the work at East that’s been written in stone. The part- grades. nership has functioned like an ongoing conversation with a simple ground rule: “I love when teachers who now are receiving these that the topic is how to improve the lives of the students, and no one gets to de- students are saying, man, these kids can really write,” he viate from it. says. “Or these kinds think very differently. Or these kids The conversation hasn’t always been simple or easy. “We worked hard to give are causing me to plan lessons much differently than I teachers a voice, give students a voice, and give staff a voice, in ways that surfaced did in the past. That excites us.”r the real issues,” Nelms says. “After year one, we made a ton of changes based on those recommendations.” For more stories, as well as videos, about the In the second year, Nelms presided over the evolution of a leadership struc- East High partnership and other University- ture that placed significant authority in faculty identified as teacher leaders. And community collaborations, visit Rochester.edu/news/ while he’s highly visible about the school, the Upper and Lower Schools each community-engagement.

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 39 11/10/17 3:09 PM enjamin Hmiel dons a heavy winter coat and gloves to step into the walk-in freezer at Vasilii Petrenko’s Ice Core Lab in Hutchison Hall. The extra layers of clothing are vital lab accoutrements: the freezer is lined with stacks of ice cores that Hmiel, a PhD candidate in earth and environmental sciences; Petrenko; and other scientists in the lab have collected from yearly expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. Once back in Roches- ter, the ice cores—cylinders of ice 10 inches in diameter and weighing up to 80 pounds—are kept at Arctic-like temperatures of minus 26 degrees Celsius (minus 14.8 degrees Fahrenheit) while researchers use them to study climate change. “Antarctica is actually really nice because it’s super sunny, and your body gets used to the cold,” Hmiel says. “Most of the time, the weather in the field isn’t as miser- able as it is in this freezer in Rochester.” Stepping into the freezer is like stepping into a time machine: contained within the ice cores is air dating back as far as 50,000 years. Because it contains greenhouse gases from a time before human emissions complicated the picture, the ancient air offers scientists clues to future climate patterns. “The main goal in our lab is to understand processes in the earth’s atmosphere that can help us predict the future climate,” says Petrenko, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences. “A lot of what we do is looking in the earth’s past because this allows us to see how the chemical composition of the atmosphere has been changing over large stretches of time.” Petrenko’s most recent research focuses on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas second only to carbon dioxide in its contribution to human-driven global warming. Today’s atmosphere contains methane that is emitted naturally—from wetlands, wildfires, or ocean and land seeps—and methane emitted from human activities like fossil fuel extraction and use, rice agriculture, raising livestock, and generating landfills. In a study released this fall, Petrenko analyzed methane from 12,000 years ago during the last deglaciation, when Earth was transitioning out of the last ice age. At that point in geological history, global surface temperatures were rising naturally with spurts of rapid regional warming in areas like the North Atlantic Ocean. Although climate patterns in the future may not exactly mimic those conditions, the period of warming allowed Petrenko to reveal an important piece of the climate puzzle: natural methane emissions from ancient carbon reservoirs are smaller than researchers previously thought. The discovery has two crucial implications for the future of climate change. One is that the risk that future global warming will trigger methane release from these large natural reservoirs of old carbon seems to be low. But Petrenko also found that humans Continued on page 44

DEEP FREEZE: Petrenko holds a sample of ancient ice, up close (previous page) and in his Ice Core Lab in Hutchison Hall (right). By extracting air from the ice samples and analyzing its methane, the environmental scientist finds insights into the past, and possible future, of climate change.

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Earth’s climate record is preserved in the deep freeze of its polar regions. Tiny bubbles, trapped in the ancient ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica, contain air samples up to hundreds of thousands of years old. To investigate long-term processes in the atmosphere, the University’s Ice Core Lab sends yearly expeditions to collect ice cores and then analyzes the greenhouse gases they contain. Besides offering a clearer picture of the past, the research may also offer a glimpse of future climate patterns—and humanity’s effect on them. Blue Ice Drill Used by the Rochester teams, the drill is designed to take 10-inch-diameter ice cores at depths down to about 100 meters. With it, two operators can drill about 10 to 20 meters of ice cores in a day.

0 meters, 2017 CE 75 meters, 1750 CE Going Deep As researchers drill deeper, they go further back in time. The vertical scale is increasingly compressed by the accumulated weight of the ice.

Greenhouse gas levels are higher today than at any point in the last 800,000 years; carbon dioxide levels measure 404 parts per million, methane levels 1850 parts per billion. North Pole Beginning of the Industrial Revolution: humans began emitting more greenhouse gases

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Rochester’s Ice Core c use. i t c Lab. Most are melted r Start of the relatively warm, on site to recover Antarctica A stable natural climate of the Holo- the air trapped Greenland 1,800 meters cene, the current geological epoch: inside. 10,000 years ago early human agriculture began and 2,000 meters carbon dioxide levels were at 270 Summit Station 12,000 years ago parts per million and methane was at 500 parts per billion. South Pole The Younger Dryas period, focus of Petrenko’s latest research: Earth was transitioning out of the 2,500 meters last ice age and global surface 20,000 years ago temperatures were rising naturally with spurts of rapid regional Taylor Glacier climate change. Coldest time of the last ice age: Rochester was covered by more

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rr_Nov2017_Petrenko.indd 43 11/13/17 9:52 AM Continued from page 40 appear to be contributing more methane to the atmosphere through fossil fuel use and extraction than scientists previously believed. What is it like to conduct research in one “The good news is, we have more power than we real- of the coldest, most remote places on Earth? ized to fight global warming,” Petrenko says. “We do not need to worry as much about the natural methane seeps Not surprisingly, it’s not for the faint of heart. into the atmosphere. But we do need to be concerned Vasilii Petrenko, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, about man-made methane emissions.” and members of his lab—including current members Peter Neff, a postdoctoral associate, and PhD candidates Michael Dyonisius, Benjamin Hmiel, and Philip cientists have a good idea of how much total meth- Place—collect ice core samples during annual expeditions to Greenland and ane is in the atmosphere and how the total has Antarctica. changed over the last few decades. But separating Antarctica has extreme seasons: summer is characterized by several months of the natural and anthropogenic sources and esti- 24 hours of daylight, while winter has several months of 24-hour total darkness. mating how much humans emit is more difficult. Most expeditions last from mid-November through January, during the middle “We know rather little about how much methane of Antarctica’s summer, when temperatures hover between 0 and 30 degrees comes from different sources and how these have been Fahrenheit. changing in response to industrial and agricultural ac- To get to the site, the researchers first fly on commercial planes to Christchurch, tivities or because of climate events like droughts,” says New Zealand. Next is a five-hour ride on a tightly packed US Air National Guard Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the Nation- cargo jet to McMurdo Station, the research center supported by the US Antarctic al Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation. Finally, a helicopter takes the group to the field site on Taylor Glacier. From then on, virtually their only contact with the outside world is through the helicopter pilots who peri- odically bring supplies. “It’s very focused and simplifying when you are out on the ice,” Neff says. “When you are there, you have a very specific goal: to get samples and get home safely. You’re putting your normal life largely aside.” “It’s like science nerd camp,” Petrenko says. “We eat, sleep, and work. But, everyone usually has a good time. Taylor Glacier is such a pictur- esque location with big mountains and lots of ice and ice falls. It’s extremely quiet and peaceful.” Compared to the vastness of the glacier, the field camp itself is very basic: small individual tents for sleeping, a cook tent with two-burner camp stoves, two bathroom tents, and two large tents housing the field lab equipment. Researchers get electricity via consumer-grade generators, collect drinking water in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko. “That by melting ice, and typically wear earplugs at night to drown out the near-constant makes it hard to understand which sources we should howling of the wind. They dress in multiple layers of “extreme cold weather” gear, target specifically to reduce methane levels.” including heavy parkas issued at McMurdo Station and boots with special treads to Researchers can use measurements of different iso- aid in walking on the uneven ice. topes of methane (methane molecules with atoms of Teams work the night shift, when the sun goes behind the mountain range, slightly different mass) to fingerprint some of the sources. beginning around midnight and ending around 11 a.m. The main impetus for such But even this approach doesn’t always work because the hours is the ice drilling: the drill performs better under colder conditions. isotope “signatures” of some sources can be very similar. “During peak summer it can get a little warm during the day, and the ice can For instance, fossil methane is methane emitted from an- actually start to melt,” Petrenko says. “That’s really bad because if there’s water on cient hydrocarbon deposits, typically found at sites rich the drill, it can freeze to the walls of the hole, and then the drill gets stuck.” in fossil fuels. Fossil methane that leaks naturally from The unpredictability of the weather itself presents its own challenges for these sites—“geologic methane”—has an isotope signa- researchers. ture that’s identical to the fossil methane emitted when “For me, the weather is one of the most challenging aspects of fieldwork,” Neff humans drill gas wells. says. “If you’re not trapped out in the blowing snow, it has you hunkered down in For decades, scientists used “bottom-up” methods your tent just waiting it out—and hoping the tent survives. Bad weather delays to estimate methane emission levels. That meant, for fieldwork, delays flights, and is just generally very frustrating if you don’t develop some Zen-like patience.” ICE CAMP: It’s summer in Antarctica when Rochester Ice Core This “Zen-like patience” also helps researchers deal with other camp incon- Lab researchers and their international colleagues arrive veniences, such as the lack of internet and running water. And, consequently, no at Taylor Glacier (above) to spend seven weeks collecting showers: “If each season is seven weeks long, that means you don’t shower for ancient samples of ice and extracting the gases trapped seven weeks,” Petrenko says. “Despite that, or maybe because of these things, within. “It’s very focused and simplifying,” says postdoctoral there’s a nice camaraderie that develops. It’s our polar family.” —Lindsey Valich associate Peter Neff, of the spartan adventure (opposite).

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rr_Nov2017_Petrenko.indd 44 11/13/17 9:53 AM example, traveling the globe to the various natural emis- directed into a furnace where the methane combusts to carbon dioxide. The car- sions sources—such as wetlands and land seeps—and bon dioxide is trapped, purified, and sealed into small glass tubes. conducting measurements and calculations of the meth- The best way to estimate the magnitude of fossil methane emissions is by us- ane emitted. These methods resulted in uncertainties, ing measurements of methane isotopes, such as carbon. Petrenko determined in part because it was impossible to measure all of the fossil methane levels in his latest study by using the carbon-14 isotope of meth- emissions sites, and scientists were therefore required ane—the first such study to do so. His results showed that levels of methane to make assumptions about the quantity and strength of were three to four times lower than previous estimates. If the natural geologic the sources. That opened up more room for error; Pet- methane emissions are lower than previously thought, the anthropogenic fossil renko estimates that previous natural geological meth- methane emissions must be higher than previously thought—Petrenko estimates ane approximations were way too high, by a factor of at by 25 percent or more. least three. Scientists have also raised the possibility that global warming could release “Our measurements are different because they are top- methane from very large ancient carbon reservoirs such as permafrost and gas down, measuring the atmosphere instead of the direct hydrates—ice-like forms of methane in the sediments at the bottom of the ocean— sources, at a time 12,000 years ago,” Petrenko says. “Go- that become less stable as temperatures increase. If climate change were to trigger ing back before any anthropogenic activities—before the large emissions of methane to the atmosphere from these old carbon reservoirs, Industrial Revolution—simplifies the picture and allows the result would be even more warming. However, Petrenko found that the grad- us to estimate natural geologic sources more accurately.” ual, natural global warming and rapid regional warming that characterized the Humans did not begin using fossil fuels as a primary deglaciation 12,000 years ago—events that were in some aspects comparable to energy source until the Industrial Revolution in the 18th the current human-driven global warming—did not trigger detectable releases century. Previous studies suggest that natural geologic of methane from these reservoirs. methane emissions of the past are at least as high as natural emissions today, so studying the ancient ice cores allows researchers to accurately determine the upper limit of geologic emissions, separate from their anthropogenic counterparts.

ntarctica in the south and Greenland in the north have the oldest and biggest ice sheets in the world. Together, these ice sheets offer researchers a comprehensive record of Earth’s climate history and play an important role in the future of the global climate system. Because there is so much water contained within the ice, as the ice melts, researchers estimate it could cause an alarming sea level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people along global coastlines. Every year that it snows in Antarctica, the new snow layer weighs on the previous layer, compacting over hundreds or thousands of years to When it comes to predicting the future course of climate change, therefore, eventually form layers of ice. When enough snow falls, “these kinds of scenarios regarding natural methane are not as important to take researchers can drill down and determine the time pe- into account,” he says. “However, this point is to be taken with caution because riod based on the layers, much like counting rings on a modern warming is different from warming at the end of the last Ice Age. Our tree. The ice layers contain air bubbles, which are like global temperatures right now are not within the natural cycle. We never went tiny time capsules; using melting chambers and vacuum anywhere near as high as today at any point during the last deglaciation.” pumps in the field, researchers are able to extract the ancient air contained within the bubbles. n November 2018, Petrenko and members of his lab plan to return to Ant- Most of the ice cores Petrenko uses in his methane re- arctica to collect ice cores. This time, they’ll try to answer the broader ques- search are from Taylor Glacier. It takes about one metric tion of how the large-scale chemistry of the atmosphere has changed since ton (2,200 pounds) of ice to get one nine-gallon canister pre-Industrial times. of air. And extracting enough ice to get those nine gal- The data will be especially useful to colleagues such as Lee Murray, an assistant lons can take four field scientists three full days of work. professor of earth and environmental sciences, who builds computer models to The researchers ship only a few unprocessed ice cores, predict future changes in atmospheric chemistry. Petrenko will collaborate with plus the air canisters, back to the Ice Core Lab—as well Murray on the project as well as on an additional study of the factors affecting as other destinations around the world. “Since we col- the ability of the atmosphere to cleanse itself. laborate with international labs, these air canisters are Hmiel and other members of the lab envision that their research may also help really well traveled,” Hmiel says. inform public discourse regarding a more sustainable future. When the air finally arrives in Rochester, the research- “We’re not trying to solve the green energy problem,” Hmiel says. “But our ers must further process it in order to study the specific work can be a catalyst for showing people that things like fossil fuel use and green- components, such as methane. To separate the air into its house gas emissions are a problem and that we need to switch to greener sources. components, they run it through an extraction line that Every year that we continue with business as usual, it’s going to be harder to meet removes compounds like water vapor. The air is then target climate goals. Realistically, we needed to start changing decades ago.”r

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GRANTING TIME: One of 24 recipients of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, Peterson earned recognition for his scholarship on Africa, where he has focused his attention since his sophomore year.

QUICK CONVERSATION What Does It Mean to Be Named a MacArthur ‘Genius’? MacArthur Foundation fellow Derek Peterson ’93 hopes that receiving one of academia’s most coveted honors will help bring attention to the history of colonialism in Africa.

Historian Derek Peterson ’93 has been officially conferred with T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship—commonly known as the the status of “genius.” At least, that’s the shorthand description “genius grant.” for people like him who were selected to receive one of the most One of 24 recipients including musicians, writers, scientists, coveted awards in American academic, social, and policy-making scholars, artists, and social entrepreneurs, Peterson was recog- worlds. nized for his work in reshaping the understanding of African co- Peterson, a professor of history at the University of Michi- lonialism and nationalism in studies that emphasize East African gan, was one of this year’s recipients of a John D. and Catherine intellectual production. Fluent in Gikuyu and Swahili, important

46 ROCHESTER REVIEW November–December 2017 JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION languages in eastern Africa, Peterson draws on a range of vernacular and In the News English-language sources written by Africans, including record books, dia- ries, religious pamphlets, syllabi and dictionaries, oral histories, and letters. According to the foundation, the program, which began in 1981, “is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Famous for awarding its grants—for this year’s class, the award totals $625,000 over five years—with no strings attached, the foundation says the goal is to support “people, not projects.”

What does the grant mean to you? Africa is a marginal place, when seen from the vantage point of the United States, and African studies scholars usually labor in dignified obscurity. The MacArthur award means a wider readership for my work. I’m currently writing a book about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, using newly uncovered archival materials to understand how “ordinary” Ugandans dealt with his dysfunc- tional and violent government. I’m writing that book with the hope of getting it into the hands of a wider audience, outside the university. I think it’s important, in today’s America, that we understand how dictatorships work, how they transform populism into a form of demagoguery.

You’re coordinating an effort to preserve endangered government archives HONOREE: A noted composer for film and television, in Uganda—will the grant allow you to do work that you were not able to do Beal received his fifth Emmy this fall. before? For the past 10 years I’ve been working with colleagues in Uganda to rescue, catalog, and digitize endangered archives lying in the hands of local govern- Composer Beal ments. We’ve together created the largest digitized repository of government documents in Africa. The MacArthur grant Earns Fifth Emmy will allow me to take that work into new Historian’s History Composer Jeff Beal ’85E has scored his fifth Emmy media. I’ve just started working with col- A double major in history and Award. Recognized for his work on the Netflix leagues at the Uganda Broadcasting Cor- political science, Peterson original series House of Cards, Beal was among the poration on a project to digitize the radio received a BA (1993) from honorees during this fall’s 69th Emmy Awards, pre- and television archives, which stretch back Rochester and a PhD (2000) from sented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. to the 1960s. MacArthur funds will help the University of Minnesota. The award is Beal’s second for House of Cards. His pay some of the costs of that work, I hope. A professor in the Depart- other awards were for The Company (2008), Night- ments of History and mares & Dreams (2007), and Monk (2003). What are your memories of Rochester? Afro-American and African Beal, who has taken his House of Cards scores Rochester was a terrific place to be in the Studies at the University of to concert halls around the world, has been widely early 1990s. I met my future wife, Becky Michigan, he has held positions at recognized for his work as composer for TV, film, Lorenz Peterson ’95, ’96 (T5), at Roches- the College of New Jersey and the and other media. He and his wife, University Trustee ter. She was my accompanist for a bassoon University of Cambridge. Joan Sapiro Beal ’84E, established the Beal recital I gave in my junior year. An electri- He is coeditor of several Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media cal engineering major at Rochester, she’s books, including African Print at Eastman. now a member of the engineering faculty Cultures: Newspapers and Their at Michigan. Publics in the Twentieth Century I sang in a barbershop quartet called the (2016), The Politics of Heritage Study Abroad Leader Receives Touch Tones. We didn’t set new standards in Africa: Economies, Histories, for musicality, but we did have a great Lifetime Achievement Award and Infrastructures (2015), and time together, and we entertained a lot of Jacqueline Levine ’80, ’84 (MA), who served as Recasting the Past: History Writ- people. I was the jazz music director for director of the University’s study abroad program ing and Political Work in Modern WRUR and had a weekly show at six in from 1991 to 2016, has been recognized with a Africa (2009). the morning. I took lessons in saxophone lifetime achievement award by IES Abroad, a non- and bassoon at Eastman and contemplated profit study abroad organization that administers a career in music. In the summer of my sophomore year I went to Kenya for programs for US college-aged students. three months as part of a larger group, and the time I spent living with a Ma- Since 2016, Levine has served as assistant dean saai pastor in southern Kenya was a life-changing experience. It taught me and director of special projects in the dean’s office. how much I had to learn. IES Abroad was founded in 1950 and has provided After I returned to Rochester I took as many courses as I could about Africa, study abroad and internship programs to more than studying with professor Elias Mandala (about African history) and with the 120,000 students. late professor Sam Nolutshungu (about African politics). After I graduated I The award recognizes an individual who has was fortunate enough to win a Fulbright grant, which took me to Kenya for served the study abroad field through significant a full year. That’s were it all started from.r professional and volunteer work and is chosen by —Sandra Knispel IES Abroad’s nominations committee.

November–December 2017 ROCHESTER REVIEW 47 ALUMNI GAZETTE Starting Up Girl Starter’s Jeannine Shao Collins ’86 hopes to set young female entrepreneurs on a path to success. For Jeannine Shao Collins ’86, the “light-bulb moment” for how to help young women become entrepreneurs came from a conversation with her daughter. After attending a women’s forum in New York City hosted by Duke University the then 16-year-old Ju- lia Collins returned home full of frustration—and full of ideas. “We have to do something about this gender equity issue,” she told her mother. “The world has to get behind women when they’re younger.” “I knew Julia was right,” says Collins, a successful magazine and media executive. “There needed to be a forum for young women who want to be entrepreneurs.” Three years later, the result is Girl Starter, a New York City–based media company whose mission is to give girls the tools they need to develop their potential as business leaders. Cofounded by Collins, the company includes a website (GirlStarter.com), a reality TV show that debuted on the cable network TLC last April, and other media channels. Collins created Girl Starter with her friend, television writer and Broadway producer Dani Davis. They’re also cocreators of the TV show of the same name, which offers $100,000 seed funding and services to the winner. Also involved were her husband, Chris, a former executive with the Wall Street Journal and ESPN; and Julia, now a student at Duke. Originally planning to major in engineering, Collins switched to economics during her first year at Roch- ester. After graduation, she moved to New York City and worked in advertising management positions at Prevention and Women’s Day magazines. In 1993, she joined Meredith Corp., a media company that reaches more than 100 million women through its platforms, serving as chief innovation officer and as publisher of More, a lifestyle magazine geared toward an older de- mographic of women. The Girl Starter team spent more than two years de- RISK ATTENTION: From her experience in leading the media company Girl Starter veloping the company, work that included conducting (GirlStarter.com), Collins encourages young women and their parents to take more focus groups with women 18 to 24 years old. “We dis- risks when it comes to thinking about how they can be entrepreneurs. covered that a lot of women found the word ‘entrepreneur’ intimidating,” Collins says. Don’t be afraid to change. “If something’s not working, make With the new company, Collins says she’s found a new passion. adjustments. People get emotionally attached to an idea. They “Girl Starter is a place to celebrate people doing the right thing.” don’t see that it needs to evolve. Adjusting is not a sign of failure.” Collins offers advice for teenagers (especially girls) who aspire Have fun. “People do their best when they enjoy what they’re to make it in the business world: doing. The more you put joy and laughter into it, the more you’ll Don’t be afraid to fail. “We learn the most through our fail- want to do it. And work won’t feel like work.” ures. We can’t be so afraid that we don’t take the leap. Go for it.” Listen to your heart. “Understand why you’re doing this and Find your inner circle of support. “No one can do it alone. who you’re doing it for. Is it for you or someone else?” Figure out the people who can help you—a parent, a teacher, or a Collins says parents can play a vital role in getting children to store owner—and talk to them.” develop entrepreneurial skills. Listen and ask questions. “You learn the most by doing these “Encourage them to take risks and support them in their two things. If you ask the right questions, your path will open up. journey,” she says. “If you’re offering constructive feedback, it Innovation comes when people listen to each other and work to- shouldn’t be squelching. Let them be creative. If you’re directing ward a mutually exciting goal.” it, it doesn’t come from them.”r —Jim Mandelaro

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rr_Nov2017_Gazette.indd 48 11/12/17 8:16 PM ALUMNI GAZETTE FIVE QUESTIONS ‘We Each Have Great Capacity to Learn, Grow, and Work Together’ Tiffany Taylor Smith ’91 is the new executive director for inclusive excellence, education, and professional development at the University of Dayton. Tiffany Taylor Smith ’91 was raised in Dayton, Ohio, and attended sexual orientation, and anything in our background, history, or high school in the predominately white suburb of Kettering. As she physical make-up add to who we are—they don’t take anything was growing up, her parents encouraged her and her siblings to away. Diversity is about our individual uniqueness and our mul- get involved in whatever they could. From softball to Girl Scouts tiple dimensions. to school plays, they did it all, and it never mattered that they were Inclusion is action oriented. It’s about helping people feel au- usually the only black children there. thentically welcomed and valued. I often say inclusion is like this Being at ease with all types of people came to Taylor Smith at an great big house where anyone can open the refrigerator, use the early age. She credits cultural curiosity as a bathroom, or get a cup from the china cab- key aspect of her outlook, contributing to a inet. All those inside have equal access to 25-year career in corporate and academic everything. worlds, where she focused on building diverse and culturally inclusive communities. Why are diversity and inclusion This fall, Taylor Smith was named the important? University of Dayton’s inaugural executive We live in a very interesting time. So many director for inclusive excellence, educa- people are seeing that the status quo isn’t tion, and professional development. Re- serving anyone any more, that we have to turning to her native city, she oversees an address racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and effort to promote and enhance intercultural other key issues. We can’t place value on competence, diversity, equity, and inclusive our differences—we must embrace them excellence at an institution that has 2,600 and see that, at our core, we all share some- full-time and part-time faculty and staff thing essential: our common humanity. and more than 10,000 students. A member of Rochester’s Diversity How did being a Rochester student Council and former cochair of the Uni- influence you? versity’s New York City Metro Leadership My eyes really opened up in college. I was Council, Taylor Smith has also served on part of the Black Students’ Union, a resi- several metro women’s groups. dent advisor, and always looked for ways to help people to get to know each other, get How do you define your new role? along, and see the best in the other person. I create and facilitate professional develop- It was at college when I also met Dr. ment programs for faculty and staff around Paul Burgett ’68E, ’72E (PhD), who was diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re dean of students when I was a psycholo- lucky—Dayton’s been actively engaged in gy student and is now vice president and this work for a while. What we need to do senior advisor to President Joel Seligman. now is to coalesce efforts from across every I’ve stayed in touch with him for 25 years. COMMUNITY CENTERED: Taylor Smith credits academic and nonacademic unit. her family’s cultural curiosity with piquing I remember that he always called his stu- her interest in building diverse and inclusive dents “Dr.” So to me, he’d say “Dr. Taylor.” What was the catalyst for this new communities, the focus of her career. No one had ever addressed me like that position? before. In his eyes, we all could see what Dayton’s leadership is one reason. Eric Spina became our presi- he thought we could become. That was so empowering. This is dent in 2015, and my boss, Larry Burnley, joined in 2016 as Day- what I want for those I work with to see—that we each have great ton’s first vice president for diversity and inclusion. Both leaders potential and capacity to learn, grow, and work together. And, in- were already champions of diversity and inclusion. Another rea- terestingly, I’m actually planning to start my doctorate in educa- son I was drawn to Dayton is because of our commitment to the tional leadership in the fall. “common good.” This principle is rooted in our Catholic Marianist values, which are based on the idea of an education grounded not Good Reads just in the faith but also in service and justice and change. That Taylor Smith recommends two books: reminds me of Rochester’s commitment to Meliora. Growing our Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist diversity and inclusiveness programs aligns perfectly with doing Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, and Tribes by Seth Godin. what is best for all. “Both are excellent. Kendi, who recently established an institute on racism at American University, offers such an informed How do you define diversity and inclusion? perspective, and Godin’s book is an all-time favorite. It’s about Diversity is about what we bring to society. Our race, gender, finding community.”r —Kristine Thompson

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rr_Nov2017_Gazette.indd 49 11/12/17 8:16 PM Class Notes

CLASS PHOTO: Members of the Classes of 1967 from the College and from the School of Nursing gather for a photo after a ceremony in which they each received a University medallion marking their 50th Reunion.

second edition of Exhibit Makeovers: College A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING Museums (Rowman & Littlefield) with the exhibit team at the Museum 1957 Robert (Craig) Brown died of Natural & Cultural History at in September 2016 following open the University of Oregon. . . . Joan heart surgery, Gail Detgen Brown Bertinelli Tobey sends a photo and writes. Married for 56 years, Gail some news. “I was traveling with and Craig had three children and Globalbike (check it out at Globalbike. four grandchildren. “As a student org) to Tusaidiane [Tanzania], where of Mason Wade at Rochester, he recipients of Globalbike’s bicycles became interested in Canada and were showing my group how they went to the University of Toronto have been using the bikes to carry to do his master’s, intending to water, produce, and goods.” On the stay only a year. Remaining to do a way, she met a Tanzanian man wear- PhD, he then taught Canadian his- ing a Rochester sweatshirt. “It was tory and Canadian–American rela- refreshing to see the blue and gold in tions at the University of Calgary and such a remote place,” she writes. the University of Toronto, where he became chair of the history depart- 1961 Karpick 1966 Claudia Schatz ment, a dean, president of the (see ’39 Eastman). Canadian Historical Society, and a Together we enjoyed the sights and 1962 Brian Turner was appointed member of the Royal Society.” food of the Maryland Eastern Shore as a canon of the Episcopal 1967 Alan Carmasin (see ’68). area. Carl is a research profes- Missionary Church. Brian is the chan- . . . Lucien Lombardo addressed 1961 Ron Karpick sends a photo sor of pediatrics at the Uniformed cellor of the diocese, vice chancellor the United Nations’ Committee on and writes, “Carl Hunt and his wife, Services University in Bethesda. I of the national church, and chairman the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Joyce Shoemaker, took my wife, retired from my pulmonary and crit- of the Board of Examining Chaplains. Switzerland, in May, following pub- Jane, and me for a long weekend ical care practice in 2001 and from He is the curate of Christ (Anglican) lication in 2016 of an article he cruise in August from Annapolis to the tuberculosis consultant position Church in Warrenton, Virginia. coauthored entitled “Law Reform, St. Michaels, Maryland, aboard Carl’s with the Fairfax County VA Health Child Maltreatment and the UN 54-foot 1986 Hatteras Motor Yacht. Department in 2015.” 1964 Alice Parman cowrote the Convention on the Rights of the

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rr_Nov2017_Notes.indd 50 11/13/17 9:55 AM CLASS NOTES Child” in the International Journal of was the AP World History chair, Children’s Rights. . . . Sam Meisels, wrote textbooks, gave lectures, and the founding executive director of was the beneficiary of myriad fel- the Buffett Early Childhood Institute lowships. She had a loyal follow- and a professor of child, youth, and ing of students who kept in touch family studies at the University of with her postgraduation. Louise’s Nebraska is the inaugural Richard D. friends remember her as “a won- Holland Presidential Chair in Early derful mother passionately devoted Childhood Development. The pres- to her two daughters” and as some- idential chair is the highest aca- one who “courageously stood up demic award and recognition the for her beliefs and was unafraid to university bestows on faculty. Sam express them.” . . . Drew Mittelman is considered one of the nation’s celebrated his 70th birthday in most accomplished and respected September with many classmates, early childhood leaders. He is pres- along with more than 60 others. Of ident emeritus of Erikson Institute his Rochester friends, “these are all and professor and research scien- people I have seen regularly through tist emeritus of the University of the years,” he writes. “This is the 1964 Tobey Michigan’s School of Education and first time we have all been together the Center for Human Growth and and it was fantastic for everyone Development. Sam (right) is pictured to be there and just celebrate our with the University of Nebraska’s lives.” Pictured from left to right are President Hank Bounds. Myra Zauderer Brodney, Charlie Norris, Dave Ragusa ’76W (Mas), Larry Brodney, Mike Finberg, Dana Mittelman ’05, Paul Vance ’69, Drew, Al Lobel ’69S (MBA), Ron Goldberg, Joanne James Finberg, Cathy Jones Minehan, Dave Lyons ’69, Alan Carmasin ’67, Betsey Lamb Lyons, and Donna Carlson ’81. Steve Lasser ’69 also attended, and Dave MacIntyre was invited but unable to attend. 1967 Meisels

1969 Steve Lasser (see ’68). 1968 Forsyth and Intrator . . . Dave Lyons (see ’68). . . . Paul Vance (see ’68). 1968 Louise Forsyth, pictured with Alexa (Lexie) Kaplan 1970 Cynthia Rauker Rigby Intrator, died in August, write was awarded the Kentucky Lexie, Erica (Ricki) Levitt, and Paul Medical Association’s “Community Bloomberg. Erica, Paul, and Lexie, Connector” designation at the who attended her memorial service association’s annual meeting in in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, write Louisville. The Community Connector that Louise was an intrepid world program highlights physicians who traveler who continued to travel have been leaders both in their local and attend concerts and plays while communities and in medicine and hosting and celebrating with friends have completed a public health or throughout her illness. She had public education service element. 1968 Mittelman retired after a long career teaching Cynthia is pictured with Kentucky history and psychology at Poly Prep Medical Association board chair, in Brooklyn, where she was head Dale Toney. of the history department. Louise 1971 Jerry Newman sends a photo captioned, “Rocky took a road Abbreviations trip this summer to see the Who in E Eastman School of Music concert in Canandaigua with my M School of Medicine daughter, Aurora Newman ’17, and and Dentistry me.” . . . Joan Levy Zlotnik sends N School of Nursing a photo and a note: “We continue S Simon Business School to get together 50 years after first W Warner School of Education meeting; several of us met during Mas Master’s degree Freshman Week and Summer RC River Campus Orientation and have maintained our Res Medical Center residency friendships, sharing life cycle events Flw Postdoctoral fellowship and fun times, including getting Pdc Postdoctoral certificate together on Cape Cod in August.” 1970 Rigby 1971 Newman

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 51 11/8/17 2:42 PM CLASS NOTES LIFETIMES Teacher, Scholar, and Academic Leader: Hugo Sonnenschein ’61 One of the most prominent economic theorists of his gener- given my math background. Several have held important ation, Hugo Sonnenschein ’61 is equally at home crunching Bingo! I found a paper on positions in government and mathematical models, leading a classroom discussion, and guid- “social choice” and the work in the private sector. ing the nation’s leading universities. A former president of the of Kenneth Arrow. It was University of Chicago and provost at Princeton University, he is a another “love at first sight.” My time as president member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American “Life Partner and Scholarly I served at the University Philosophical Society. A Rochester trustee, he was awarded an Mission”: I owe so much to of Chicago during a time of honorary degree from the University this fall in recognition of Rochester. change. I felt that it was essen- his achievements as an academic leader, scholar, and teacher. tial to elevate the place of My scholarship undergraduate students at the My childhood surrounded with in my early and teaching university. We put substantial I was surrounded by love years and throughout my life. Graduate school was a breeze. resources into student life. I and I received considerable Rochester had prepared me called on the faculty to reex- attention. But I have no rec- My Rochester days very well. I finished my PhD amine our core curriculum ollection of my mother, who Elizabeth Gunn Sonnenschein at Purdue at age 23 and was and this generated controver- died when I was very young. ’61, ’62N and I met in our appointed assistant pro- sy within the university and I was raised by my aunt and freshman year. I was 16. Beth fessor at the University of in the larger society. Chicago

ROCHESTER TIES: University Trustee Hugo Sonnenschein was awarded an honorary degree from Rochester this fall (right) for his leadership and achievements, part of a lifelong set of connections to the University, where he and his wife, Elizabeth Gunn Sonnenschein (left), met as freshmen.

her family in a modest home maintains that I looked 12. Minnesota. I was promoted to continues to be known for its in Brooklyn. At age nine I However, she eventually took full professor at age 27. I work rigorous curriculum, and I moved to boarding school, and me seriously and we were with mathematical models of believe that our revised core I completed high school at married one year after grad- social science phenomena. A has helped us to attract seri- Oakwood Friends. My fellow uation. Rochester economics, theorem that bears my name ous young people who thrive students and teachers were led by Lionel McKenzie and characterizes the mathemat- at Chicago. The size of the good people and I learned a with the great Nobel laure- ical structure of multimarket College increased and we lot. ate to-be Bob Fogel, was in the demand and supply functions. simultaneously became sub- Neither my father nor my vanguard of places that antic- My proudest achievements stantially more selective. We aunt attended college. Yet ipated the extent to which include the extraordinary tripled the size of our endow- they cared about what I would mathematics and statistics success of my students, some ment, which protects the become and they valued would transform their dis- of whom have gone on to future of Chicago. A prima- education. cipline. A young economics teach at Harvard, Berkeley, ry purpose of academic lead- I was a happy child, and professor encouraged me to Stanford, Princeton, Chicago, ership is to guide a university I’m grateful for the love, at- search for economics papers Yale, and other outstand- to appreciate its strengths, to tention, and values that I was that I might find interesting, ing universities worldwide. examine what it can do better,

Bingo! I found a paper on “social choice”. . . It was another “love at first sight.” “Life Partner and Scholarly Mission”: I owe so much to Rochester.

52 ROCHESTER REVIEW November–December 2017 COURTESY OF HUGO SONNENSCHEIN ’61 (WEDDING); J. ADAM FENSTER (HONORARY DEGREE)

RochRev_Nov2017.indb 52 11/8/17 2:42 PM CLASS NOTES and to help it to serve society. Pictured are (seated, left to right) We are expected to lead the Joan, Ethel Bernstein, Stanley cheers, but we must also hold Berman, (standing) Peggy Fiddler up a mirror. Great universi- (Nick Fleisher’s wife), Charles Tabb, Randi Fox Tabb (Charlie’s ties need to be challenged. I wife), Andrew Bernstein, Nicholas am immensely proud of the Fleisher, and Marc Zlotnik. quality of faculty and students who came to Chicago 1972 Tom Bonfiglio has published during my tenure as presi- his fifth book, The Psychopathology dent. Two were subsequent- of American Capitalism (Palgrave ly awarded the Nobel Prize, Macmillan), part of the publish- and a third, admittedly a half- er’s Critical Political Theory and time appointment in our law Radical Practice series. Tom is the school, went on to become Gaines Professor of Literature and Linguistics at the University of 1971 Zlotnik President Barack Obama. Richmond.

My service as a trustee 1974 Ross Petty ’74S (MBA), a I have spent considerable time professor of marketing law and fac- with the trustees of Chicago, ulty scholar at Babson College, has Princeton, and Rochester. published Petty’s Branding Law: A These universities have a Guide to the Legal Issues in Brand unique ability to make this a Management (West Academic). better world. Especially, if one values democracy and appre- 1975 James Kennedy writes: “Hi, Rochester friends. I wanted to ciates the importance of ideas share a link to a sci-fi short story and a well-educated citizen- I’ve written, in which a character is a ry. Rochester trustees have University of Rochester astrophysi- been generous with their con- cist (my initial dream as a freshman). tribution of resources. But Besides aliens and asteroids, the tale more important has been their also touches on politics, the media, 1975 London wisdom, their different per- and faith.” The free e-book can be spectives, and their critical found at Medium.com/@jimkenne- partner, Jim Schank. We were legal- a note: “On August 27 I competed in understanding of the discovery dy250/seti-oz-b4beed199fd4. . . . ly married in a private ceremony in the World Multisport Championships and learning that goes on at Barbara London was married last Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in April in Penticton, Canada, where I was June to Stephen Presser. Stephen 2015.” . . . Michael Corp, a partner invited to be on Team USA and fin- Rochester. The trustees work is a Rochester dermatologist, and in the law firm Hancock Estabrook, ished eighth in the 60–64 age group in support of an outstanding Barbara is, she writes, “a happy has been selected for inclusion in in the aquabike, completing the faculty and superb academ- retiree as of 2015 after a 38-year Upstate New York Super Lawyers two-mile swim and 75-mile bike in 4 ic leadership. It has been an career as a medical social worker for 2017. Michael is the chair of the hours 29 minutes. Penticton hosted honor to serve with such a in Cincinnati.” She “loves living in tax, trusts and estates, and elder the first annual week-long Olympics- dedicated and talented group. Rochester after 40 years away.” law and special needs department. type festival of multisport races put . . . Kevin Maier sends a photo and on by the International Triathlon My life today 1977 Peter Friedenberg, a real Union, which included sprint duath- I am in my Chicago office most estate lawyer with the Boston firm lon (run/bike/run), standard duath- every day. Beth is a retired can- Sherin and Lodgen, was selected by lon, cross triathlon (off-road his peers for inclusion in the peer triathlon), aquathon (swim/run), cer epidemiologist. We serve on review publication The Best Lawyers long-course triathlon, and aqua- boards, with a tilt toward ad- in America 2018 (Woodward/White). bike. A total of nearly 5,000 athletes vanced learning, child welfare, Best Lawyers highlights the top five from 39 countries competed in the and community service. Our percent of practicing attorneys in six events.” grandchildren are at universi- the United States. ties in D.C., England, New York, 1979 Steven Goldberg, an envi- and Chicago. They will make 1978 Barry Bergen celebrated ronmental litigation attorney the world a better place. We two milestones last June. He writes, with Downey Brand, was named a stalk them! We remain in con- “I retired from my position as pro- Northern California Super Lawyer tact with Rochester classmates, fessor of history at Gallaudet and was recognized by Sacramento University. My 25 years of service Magazine as a 2017 Top Lawyer. and we enjoy theater, biking, there included seven years as chair . . . Valerie Leeds wrote George and music. Beth belongs to a of the Department of History and Sotter: Light and Shadow (James A. recorder group. It is a long way Government, now the Department Michener Art Museum) to accom- from Brooklyn. Some of what of History, Philosophy, Religion, pany the museum’s retrospective has been most formative began and Sociology, and three addition- exhibition of the Pennsylvania art- at Rochester. Meliora! r al years as program coordinator ist’s paintings and stained glass. —As told to for the history program.” In addi- Light and Shadow is the first pub- Robin L. Flanigan tion, “I celebrated 20 years with my 1978 Maier lication devoted to Sotter’s work.

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 53 11/8/17 2:42 PM CLASS NOTES KUDOS School of Medicine and Dentistry Honors Alumni, Friends During a Meliora Weekend ceremony, medical school alumni and supporters were recognized for their achievement, service, and humanitarian initiatives.

Dean’s Medal Joseph Lobozzo II Lobozzo founded JML Optical Industries—a company that Joseph Lobozzo II Frank W. LoGerfo Seymour Schwartz designs, manufactures, and distributes high-precision optical in Mirebalais, Haiti; is a medical components and equipment—in education consultant with Project 1972. He served as president and Medishare for Haiti in Miami; CEO until he sold the company in and is cocreator and program 2011. A long-standing supporter director of Hospital Saint Damien/ of the Medical Center, Lobozzo Bernard Mevs Pediatric Residency has been a member of the cen- Program in Port au Prince. ter’s board for 17 years. His support has led to the cre- Humanitarian Award ation of the Joseph M. Lobozzo II Sophina Manheimer Calderon Randy Rosier Antonia Eyssallenne Professorship in Pediatric Surgery ’11M (MD) and funding for a SMILEmobile, Calderon provides medical care a custom-designed, wheel- to disadvantaged populations in chair-accessible, mobile dental the United States and abroad. As clinic that allows the Eastman a member of the Navajo Nation in Institute for Oral Health to provide Arizona, she is a family medicine first-of-its-kind access to people physician at Tuba City Regional with special needs. He has also Health Care Corporation in Tuba supported efforts to improve City, a small town on the western access to the Eastman Institute for end of the Navajo Nation in patients in wheelchairs and other northeastern Arizona. She also Sophina Manheimer Calderon Katherine Gamble projects at the Medical Center. provides inpatient obstetrics Alumni Service Award founding director of the Center labor and delivery services in a John N. Wilder Award Seymour Schwartz ’57M (Res) for Musculoskeletal Research, midwife provider role. She serves Frank LoGerfo ’66M (MD) Holding the title of Distinguished which remains one of the top- as the HIV officer for the hospital, LoGerfo holds the title of William Alumni Professor of Surgery, ranked NIH-funded orthopaedic providing care and education for V. McDermott Distinguished Pro- Schwartz joined the School of research programs. Rosier also both providers and patients in fessor of Surgery at Harvard Med- Medicine and Dentistry in 1957. served as the chair of the Depart- the community. ical School and is retired chief of His research focused on liver ment of Orthopaedics, where he the Division of Vascular Surgery physiology, portal hypertension, held the title of Marjorie Strong Humanitarian Award at the Beth Israel Deaconess Med- platelet physiology, and the Wehle Professor in Orthopaedics. (posthumous) ical Center in Boston. Nationally effects of carotid sinus nerve William Gamble ’59M (MD) recognized for his research on stimulation on hypertension. Alumni Achievement Gamble was a professor emeritus vascular bypass grafts as well Although he performed as Award of surgery at the University of as techniques to treat patients a general surgeon, vascular Antonia Eyssallenne ’01M (MS), Minnesota’s medical school, with diabetes, he directs training surgeon, cardiothoracic surgeon, ’04M (PhD), ’06M (MD) maintaining an active clinical programs for medical students and pediatric surgeon, his major Eyssallenne is the program practice for 33 years until his and surgical residents. clinical impact was in the field of director of the Internal Medicine– retirement in 1999. He taught In 2004, he and his wife, Judy, hepatobiliary surgery. Pediatrics Residency Program surgical ethics and surgical tech- established the Frank W. and and assistant professor of internal nique at Minnesota throughout Judith M. LoGerfo Scholarship Distinguished Alumnus medicine and pediatrics at the his career. With more than 47 Fund. LoGerfo also endowed a Randy Rosier ’78M (MD), University of Miami’s Miller School years of clinical practice and summer research traineeship ’79M (PhD) of Medicine/Jackson Memorial teaching, Gamble influenced at the School of Medicine and Rosier is a professor emeritus of Hospital in Miami, Florida. She generations of students and res- Dentistry in recognition of the orthopaedics and rehabilitation also serves as director for the idents. The award was accepted role that such experiences played at the School of Medicine and Intensive Care Unit for Partners by his widow, Katherine, and in his career. Dentistry, where he also was the in Health at University Hospital other members of his family.

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rr_Nov2017_Notes.indd 54 11/13/17 9:56 AM CLASS NOTES . . . Sharon Porcellio, a member of process.’ The AP development com- Bond, Schoeneck & King’s Buffalo mittees represent a unique col- law office, has been recognized in laboration between high school the 2017 Upstate New York Super and college educators.” Laura has Lawyer Top 25 Women list in the taught for 23 years, the past 20 in field of business litigation. the Webster Central School District, where she teaches Music Theory I 1981 Donna Carlson (see ’68). and AP Music Theory. In addition, she’s a grader of AP Music Theory 1982 Jeff Powers sends a photo exams for the College Board and has from his long-distance bicycle trip. been a presenter at the AP National He writes, “Greetings! I just com- Conference as well as at the read- pleted a 4,200-mile, two-month, ing sessions for the exam. . . . René (mostly) solo bike trip from my home Mogensen was awarded his PhD at in Seattle to my parents’ home in the Conservatoire at Birmingham Delaware. Stopped in Rochester, of City University, England. A com- 1982 Powers course. Read about my adventures poser, performer, and educator, at Venividibici.wordpress.com.” he received his MA from New York University and MM from the Royal 1983 Geoffrey Prior (see ’11). Academy of Music, Aarhus. His composition “Views From Plato’s Cave,” 1991 David Kemp, a captain in the a piece for trombone and computer Navy, sends a photo of himself with written for trombonist Niels-Ole Bo fellow NROTC alumnus Erik Wignes Johansen and premiered by him in ’93 (right). “We ran into each other 2009, is included on Johansen’s 2017 at Navy Recruiting Command in CD, Identity Problems (CDKlassisk). Millington, Tennessee. I am currently . . . Erik Wignes (see ’91). the commander of the US Military Entrance Processing Command, 1996 Nayma Rab Kose ’97 (T5), whose mission is to evaluate all a community program organizer, applicants who desire to enlist in youth mentor, and volunteer the Armed Forces. Erik, who is in the with the Chicago-based interna- Navy Reserve, currently works for tional charity organization Zakat Deloitte on transformation issues Foundation of America, was named 1991 Kemp for the Navy.” . . . Tiffany Taylor a 2017 Movers & Shakers honoree Smith was hired into the newly cre- by Cary Magazine in Cary, North ated position of executive director Carolina. for inclusive excellence education and professional development at the 1998 Keila Baez writes that she University of Dayton in Ohio. Before married Kevin Shehan in Detroit in that, she ran TR Taylor Consulting, October 2016. Pictured with Keila a firm she founded in 2001. In addi- are Ellen Makovsky, Jen Hoffman, tion to her consulting experience, and Danielle Johnson. . . . Matthew she worked as an adjunct professor Rosen (see ’99). of psychology at Kean University and Seton Hall University in New Jersey 1999 Marc Samuelson sends a for 11 years. She taught courses on photograph from a mini reunion life-span development and child and in Niskayuna, New York, in August. adolescent psychology. Tiffany held From left to right are Marc, Daniel various roles in human resource Fiedler, Andrew Lesser ’00, Jacob development, diversity, and sales Russell, Matthew Rosen ’98, and 1998 Baez management with Procter & Gamble Brian Dowling. Marc writes, “We all before founding the consulting firm. met at Rochester 22 years ago and have been friends ever since. Daniel 1993 Laura Grow D’Angelo ’00E Fiedler started with us in 1995. He (MA) writes: “I have been appointed had to drop out his senior year but to serve on the Advanced Placement recently began taking classes toward (AP) Music Theory Development his history degree. He now is two Committee. According to the College classes away from graduating from Board, ‘these dedicated educators Rochester and should do so by the play a critical role in the prepara- end of this year.” tion of the course description and exam for AP Music Theory. They rep- 2000 Andrew Lesser (see ’99). resent a diversity of knowledge and points of view in their fields and, 2001 Jonathan Orent has been as a group, are the authority when promoted to member attorney at it comes to making subject-matter the national plaintiffs’ law firm decisions in the exam-construction Motley Rice. He focuses his practice 1999 Samuelson

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on representing people harmed by 2011 Elisabeth Arthur Mekosh dangerous and defective medical sends a photo and writes, “Several devices and pharmaceutical drugs. Rochester alumni, parents, and Jonathan served as a law clerk with friends attended a pregame happy the Missouri State Public Defender hour and the Orioles game in July Youth Advocacy Unit and as a legal as the first of hopefully many UR intern for Senator Richard Durbin of Baltimore Network events.” Pictured Illinois before joining Motley Rice. are (back row, left to right) Avi He earned his JD from Washington Sommer ’08, Heather Winegrad University School of Law. Pollak ’13, Adam Brinkman ’12, Jeffrey Shapanka ’12, ’13 (MS), Jason 2005 Dana Mittelman (see ’68). Mekosh, Bradley Smith ’20, Matt Bielecki ’09, Greg Zapas ’21, and 2006 Christopher Lee (see ’08). Geoffrey Prior ’83; and (front row, 2008 Skipton left to right) Kyley McClain Sommer 2008 Erik LaLone (see ’09). ’06E, Elisabeth, Maryanna Krewson ed that he scrape some of my writ- Wisely . . . Wisdom of Our Elders . . . Greg Skipton sends a photo ’16, Gaelynn Petry ’16, Jeffrey Smith ings from over the past 40 years into (Jones & Bartlett Learning) by Irving and update. He writes, “Alumni of Sr., and Sierra Prior ’20. a book. He did it all.” Robert was Silverman and Ellen Beth Siegel. the music interest floor met up in the longtime host of The Humble Montreal for a ‘Dirty Thirty’ birth- 2012 Adam Brinkman (see ’11). Farmer, a weekly program on Maine 2000 Peter Stone (PhD) is the day bash reunion from June 16 to 19. . . . Jeffrey Shapanka ’13 (MS) Public Radio, and is a columnist editor of Bertrand Russell’s Life and Many members of the group either (see ’11). as well as the owner, with his wife, Legacy (Vernon Press), published in have turned 30 or will be turning Marsha, of a bed and breakfast June as part of the Vernon Series 30 this year. The group took advan- 2013 Heather Winegrad Pollak in the coastal town of St. George, in Philosophy. Peter taught politi- tage of AirBnB and all were able (see ’11). Maine. cal science at Stanford University to stay and celebrate together in and held a Faculty Fellowship at L’Hotel Particulier in Griffintown. 2016 Maryanna Krewson (see 1972 Janet Garber (MA) writes, Tulane University’s Center for Ethics Members came from California, ’11). . . . Gaelynn Petry (see ’11). “Dream Job, Wacky Adventures of and Public Affairs before becoming Illinois, New York, New Jersey, an HR Manager, my comic debut the Ussher Assistant Professor of North Carolina, Massachusetts, and 2017 Aurora Newman (see ’71). novel, was a runner-up in the Shelf Political Science (Political Theory) at Connecticut. It was an amazing time Unbound Best Indie Book con- Trinity College Dublin in 2011. filled with good food, wine, music, Graduate test and a finalist in the 2017 Next and laughter.” Pictured are: (back Generation Indie Book Awards.” Her 2007 Angela Gibson (PhD) has row, left to right) Katie Maloney ’10, ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING website is Janetgarber.com. been appointed director of schol- Christopher Lee ’06, Adam Gross arly communication at the Modern ’09, ’10 (MS), Rebekah Porter, 1970 Robert Skoglund’s (MA) 1974 Jay Stratton (MA) pub- Language Association (MLA). She Andrew Bochenko ’09, Greg, Kate Portland Press Herald columns lished Pomona’s Lost Children: A oversees book and journal acquisi- Cieply Skipton ’09, Peter McLoone have been compiled into a book, Book of Uncommon Antique Fruits tions, MLA style development, dig- ’10, ’11 (MS); (front row, left to right) Chicken Poop for the Soil: Wit and (Chautauqua Gorge Press), a cook- ital initiatives, and the editorial Elizabeth Swovick ’10, Sara Allen Wisdom from the Humble Farmer book and farm memoir. work of MLA publications. “If you’re ’09, Lauren Corrigan ’09, Courtney (CreateSpace). He writes: “At 81-and- interested in proposing a book or Callanan ’09, Sharon Hopcraft a-half years of age (at my age 1991 Brenda Keegan (PhD) partnering with the MLA to pub- Alongi ’09, and Tony Alongi ’09. . . . every half year counts), an editor has published a chapter titled lish open educational resources for Avraham Sommer (see ’11). (who teaches electric motors at the “Thoughts on Success and Failure” teaching writing, research, or MLA University of Maine, Orono) insist- in a new book on aging, Aging style, visit Mla.org and reach out to 2009 Sara Allen (see ’08). . . . Tony and Sharon Hopcraft Alongi (see ’08). . . . Mathew Bielecki (see ’11). . . . Andrew Bochenko (see ’08). . . . Courtney Callanan (see ’08). . . . Lauren Corrigan (see ’08). . . . Adam Gross ’10 (MS) (see ’08). . . . Katherine Herman ’09E, ’17M (PhD) (see ’83 Eastman). . . . Melanie Pelcher joined the New York State Master Teacher program during the 2016–17 school year. “Melanie teaches physics and launched a Project Lead the Way biomedical science program at Henninger High School in Syracuse, New York,” writes her husband, Erik LaLone ’08. . . . Kate Cieply Skipton (see ’08).

2010 Katie Maloney (see ’08). . . . Peter McLoone ’11 (MS) (see ’08). . . . Elizabeth Swovick (see ’08). 2011 Mekosh

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RochRev_Nov2017.indb 56 11/8/17 2:42 PM WHERE 1979 Michael Crumb ’84E (MA) retired in June from the Spencerport WILL THE TRAVEL CLUB Central School District where he served his last six years as super- TAKE YOU? intendent of schools. He worked in education for 38 years as a teacher, an administrator, and a leader in New York State public schools, including as a music teacher in the Lyons and West Irondequoit school districts for 19 years. Joining him at his retirement celebration were two former student teachers who are now career music teachers, 1983E Herman (1987) 1983E Herman (2017) Cindy Ross Briggs ’92E (Newark Central School District), and Patty Grimes Welch ’91E, ’97E (MM) (West Irondequoit Central School District). . . . Gary Stith (MM) compiled and edited The Conductor’s Companion: 100 Rehearsal Techniques, Imaginative Ideas, Quotes and Facts (Meredith Music) based on a nation- wide survey of outstanding middle school, high school, and university band and orchestra directors.

1981 Composer Akmal Parwez’s (PhD) solo viola piece, “When Stars Are Weeping,” was premiered by vio- 2018 TRIPS list Cornelia Petroiu at the George 1985E Kendrick Enescu Philharmony in Bucharest, Romania, in February. “It was one of the 16 works chosen as the result of an international competition,” CUBA Akmal writes. The performance can be viewed at YouTube/akmalparwez. April 22-30

1982 Carl Atkins (DMA) (see ’85).

1983 Susan Miller Herman (MM) sends a photograph of herself and her husband, James Herman IRELAND ’87M (PhD), after his commencement ceremony in 1987 when Susan July 1-13 was pregnant with their daughter, Katherine Herman ’09 (College), ’09E, ’17M (PhD). Another photo shows James, Susan, and Katherine 1989E Capani at her ceremony this past May.

the MLA scholarly communication remembers him as “a passionate 1984 Michael Crumb (MA) ITALY office,” writes Angela. musician and a lover of classical (see ’79). music, especially chamber music, August 28- 2010 Adam Gross (MS) (see ’08). his entire life.” She adds, “Although 1985 Donald Kendrick (DMA) he majored in viola, he spent his sends an update: “Carl Atkins ’82 September 5 2011 Peter McLoone (MS) (see ’08). later years playing the violin, which (DMA) and I were the first two DMA he continued playing until the age conducting students at the Eastman 2013 Jeffrey Shapanka (MS) of 99.” School of Music when the program (see ’11 College). was initiated. I started with James Learn more: 1960 Tanya Lesinsky Carey Smith, and, halfway through my rochester.edu/alumni/travel ’62E (MM) has published the book program, he left to teach at George Eastman School Father Lach’s Slovak Boys Band Mason University. So Director Robert of Music 1937 European Tour (CareyWorks), Freeman asked me to take over the a true story about 65 boys giving choral music department for the 1939 Harold Schatz passed away 70 concerts in 80 days. Tanya is next year while they did a nation- in July in Los Angeles. His daugh- an artist-teacher at Roosevelt al search. I was also the early recip- ter, Claudia Schatz ’66 (College), University in Chicago. ient of the Louise Rogers Goucher

RochRev_Nov2017.indb 57 11/8/17 2:42 PM CLASS NOTES ing $21,000: Washington (D.C.) International Competition, Waring (California) International Piano Competition, and Five Town Music Competition (New York). As a 2017 grant recipient from Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, I spent three weeks in Europe playing concerts and doing research. I want to give all the credit to Eastman, especially to my teacher Douglas Humpherys, who inspired me as a musician and as a better person. And I am so glad that I made the decision to return to my alma mater for my DMA. I take pride in this institute, and I am thrilled for my new career in both performing and teaching and to share what I learned at Eastman with my students, audiences, and the community.” . . . Ryan Enright (DMA) (see ’85). . . . Hongsup Lee writes, “It is a tremendous honor to share some great news with all the Eastman community. As an alumnus looking back, the precious time while I was studying at Eastman was the cor- nerstone that helped me to find my ALUMNI STRATEGY own musical voice, especially in the composition area. As an archetyp- Meet the National Alumni Board al classical pianist, reinterpretation The first meeting of a newly constituted National Alumni Board took place during Meliora Weekend. and recreating music was unfamil- Designed to provide a strategic perspective on Rochester’s alumni initiatives, the board is chaired by Carol iar at first; however, the refreshing Karp ’74, a University trustee whose daughter, Sarah, is a 2011 graduate. The vice chairs are Jane Zimelis experience I got from all the creative Cohen ’67 and Drew Mittelman ’68. Mittelman’s daughter, Dana, is a 2005 graduate. musical training at Eastman opened With an eventual membership of about 30 people, the board complements the work of other initiatives, my eyes to develop my own genre including the Diversity Advisory Council, class programs, the regional network leadership cabinets, and of music. I am now staying in Korea, and my first debut album Back to school alumni councils. Classics: Bach (The Classic Art) was The current members of the board are (back row, left to right) Kayleigh Stampfler ’08, Noah Pizmony- released internationally. The album Levy Drezner ’00, John LaBoda ’02, Jeffrey Stone ’87, ’91M (MD), Paul Lanzone ’03, assistant vice presi- showcase was held at Ilshin Hall in dent for alumni relations, Christine Branche ’83, Nathan Novosel ’12, and Jordan Smith ’18, the 2017–18 Seoul in May.” president of the Students’ Association; (front row) Cohen, Karp, and Mittelman. 2013 Michael Conrad (MM) writes, “I released the album New Scholarship that included a work continuing the Eastman legacy.” January. Andrés is the organ profes- Angle with my 15-piece ensemble, project under the guidance of my Jonah began this fall as an applied sor and organist at the University of the All Angles Orchestra, featur- Eastman advisor, Alfred Mann. I was music and voice (baritone) major Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. ing Alex Sipiagin. The group fea- fortunate to conduct the Eastman and also plans to study audio and tures a unique instrumentation that Sing in the early years, also. I have music engineering on the River 2000 Laura Grow D’Angelo (MA) forces the jazz and classical worlds such happy memories of my time at Campus. . . . Paulina Zamora (MM) (see ’93 College). to collide. The CD was released on Eastman. In June 2018 I will retire has released two CDs on the Delos Outside In Music, a record label cre- after 33 years as the director of Music label, Brahms: The Three 2006 Kyley McClain ated by fellow Eastman alumnus choral activities at Sacramento State Piano Trios and Claude Debussy: (see ’11 College). Nicholas Finzer ’09. I was recently School of Music, where I initiated the Douze Études. selected as one of eight participants graduate degree program in con- 2009 Katherine Herman ’09 worldwide for the 2017 Metropole ducting. I will continue my post as 1991 Patricia Grimes ’97E (MM) (College), ’17M (PhD) (see ’83). . . . Orchestra Arrangers Workshop in the music director for Sacramento’s (see ’79). Nicholas Finzer (see ’13). the Netherlands. Out of more than Schola Cantorum and Sacred Heart 100 international submissions, Church and as music director for 1992 Cynthia Ross (see ’79). 2012 Yi-Yang Chen performed my piece, ‘Spherical,’ was select- the Sacramento Choral Society and at Carnegie Hall in New York City in ed as one of three finalists in the Orchestra. The photo is of me con- 1997 Patricia Grimes (MM) October. He sends a photo and this Spheres of a Genius Composition ducting that ensemble with organist (see ’79). . . . Andrés Mojica (MM) update: “It was a harvest year for Competition, a Jam Music Lab and Ryan Enright ’12 (DMA).” appeared as solo recitalist at the me in 2017. Not only have I been Vienna Radio Symphony partnership renowned Festival Casals of Puerto selected to be the assistant pro- celebrating 100 years of Thelonious 1989 Christine Milioto Capani Rico in March. He was also the artis- fessor of piano and theory at East Monk. I have been an ASCAP Herb writes, “I’m thrilled to announce tic director of the First International Tennessee State University, I also Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award that my son, Jonah Capani, will be Organ Festival of Puerto Rico held in captured three first prizes total- recipient for the last four consec-

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rr_Nov2017_Notes.indd 58 11/13/17 9:57 AM CLASS NOTES utive years and have won three Ceremonies across the country, is an author, keynote speaker, and Richard C. Payne ’52, Downbeat Student Music Awards for including at Rochester in August. corporate trainer whose clients August 2017 composition/arranging in the past include Lockheed Martin, Allied David M. Rosenthal ’52, two years. Recent performance high- 1987 James Herman (PhD) Signal, Department of the Interior, August 2017 lights include a summer Midwest (see ’83 Eastman). and Navy SEALS. Ruth Dorshimer Little ’53E, tour with the All Angles Orchestra, August 2017 performances at the Twin Cities 2017 Katherine Herman (PhD) Ansell B. Shapiro ’53M (MD), Jazz Festival, and the Iowa City Jazz (see ’83 Eastman). May 2016 Festival with Christopher’s Very In Memoriam James A. Straney ’53E (MM), Happy. Band., and a tour through ALUMNI August 2017 China with the Romeo and Juliet School of Nursing Harold Schatz ’39E, William G. Dunn ’54, Project.” July 2017 August 2017 1959 Carolyn (Lynn) Chaloner Martin J. Koomen ’40, ’43 (MS), David B. Lloyd ’54, 2015 Margaret Harper (DMA) Dow published a memoir, July 2017 August 2017 joined the faculty of the University Nightingale Tales: Stories from My Elinor Easton Ives ’42, Joan Carroll Rogers ’54N, of Southern Maine (Gorham) as Life as a Nurse (She Writes Press) in November 2016 September 2017 artist faculty in organ and harp- October. Lynn is a retired registered Miriam Nelson Aldridge ’4 3 , Donna Brunsma ’55E, sichord. Margaret is also director nurse with 50 years’ experience in May 2017 September 2017 of music and liturgy at St. John’s a variety of positions—staff nurse, Harry M. Keating ’4 3 , Keith A. Lasher ’55, Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, head nurse, teacher, and mentor—at May 2016 August 2017 New Hampshire; the director of the large medical centers on both the Angela DeCarne Robinson ’43E, Leola Anderson Olson ’55E, choir school at St. John’s; and a fac- east and west coasts. She lives with August 2017 March 2017 ulty member for the Young Organist her husband, Gerald Dow, in San Charles A. Rogers ’43M (MD), Carl F. Needles ’56, ’60M (MD), Collaborative. Francisco. July 2017 February 2017 John M. Keil ’44, Miriam Zimmerman Oppelt 1991 Kurt Krumperman shares August 2017 Giannone ’56E (MM), August 2017 School the sad news that just months after Marcia Lewis Pennington ’44E, Susan Nowalis ’57E (MM), the release of her first book, his September 2017 July 2017 of Medicine wife, Maureen May (MS), “passed Anneva Covey ’46M (Res), Dayton G. Vincent ’58, and Dentistry away suddenly and unexpectedly in August 2017 September 2017 June.” Maureen’s Epiduralized Birth Madeleine Chaffers ’47E (MM), Philip Greenstine ’59D, 1964 Joe VanderVeer Jr. (MD) and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in August 2017 August 2017 wrote Osler for White Coat Pockets the United States (Sampson Book Jean Conner Ferris ’4 7, Adrian W. Grubs ’59M (MD), (American Osler Society) with Publishing) was published last August 2017 August 2017 Charles Bryan about Sir William March. J. Kempton Jones ’47M (Res), Gordon P. Howell ’60E (PhD), Osler, the Canadian-born phy- August 2017 September 2017 sician (1849–1919) who was a Mary Dalton Morgan ’4 7, Gerald C. Gandy ’61, teacher and professor of medi- Simon Business August 2017 August 2017 cine successively at universities in School Eileen Ohara Stellwagen ’47, ’73W Nancy Byam Church ’61, Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore, (MA), September 2017 June 2017 and Oxford. Joe writes that it was 1969 Al Lobel (MBA) (see ’68 Barbara Boal Berry ’48E, Linda Smithey Ellinwood ’62E to be distributed at White Coat College). April 2017 (MM), August 2017 Joanne Landers Henry ’48, Martha Schaefer Mower ’62W (MA), 1974 Ross Petty (MBA) July 2017 August 2017 Send Your News! (see ’74 College). Joyce Gitelman Barrow ’4 9, Donald C. Oliveau ’62M (MD), If you have an announcement August 2017 July 2017 you’d like to share with your fellow Gertrude Ferguson Dunbar ’4 9, Alexander Strasser ’62M (MD), ’67M alumni, please send or e-mail your Warner School September 2017 (MS), September 2017 personal and professional news to of Education David B. Kirk ’4 9, Kenneth B. Wolfe ’63W (Mas), Rochester Review. August 2017 July 2017 E-mail your news and digital 1970 Richard Kellogg (EdD), pro- Roberta Klein Courtman ’50, Pauline Dehaart Adams ’64, ’66 photos to [email protected]. fessor emeritus of psychology at September 2017 (MA), September 2017 Mail news and photos to Rochester Alfred State College, has written Brewster C. Doust ’50, ’52M (MD), Charles J. Ricard ’64S, Review, 22 Wallis Hall, University of a fifth book in his popular series August 2017 August 2017 Rochester, Box 270044, Rochester, of mysteries for children about Harold N. Johnson ’50, Peter L. Samuel ’65, ’72 (PhD), NY 14627-0044. detective Barry Baskerville. Barry September 2017 August 2017 Please do not edit, crop, or Baskerville’s Marvelous Memory Arthur D. Marshall ’50, Frank L. Day ’67 (MA), resize your digital images; send the (Airship 27) was published in August 2017 August 2017 original, full-size file downloaded September. John K. Oberlies ’51, Louise Forsyth ’68, from your camera or smartphone. August 2017 August 2017 To ensure timely publication of 1976 Dave Ragusa (Mas) Joann Paul Sokol ’51, James G. Snyder ’68 (MA), your information, keep in mind the (see ’68 College). August 2017 September 2017 following deadlines: Bruce R. Williams ’51, Peter M. Stacy ’68 (PhD), 1980 Marlene Caroselli (EdD) August 2017 September 2017 Issue Deadline writes, “I have completed my 60th Beverly Ray Coope ’52, David D. Lawrence ’69, March 2018 December 1, 2017 book, Natural Leadership: What the August 2017 July 2017 May 2018 February 1, 2018 Birds and the Bees and the Beasts Peter S. DiPasquale ’52, Mary Ann Samuelson ’69, July 2018 April 1, 2018 Can Teach Us (HRD Press).” Marlene August 2017 February 2016

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rr_Nov2017_Notes.indd 59 11/10/17 4:44 PM CLASS NOTES TRIBUTE Nicholas D. Trbovich ’69S (MBA), ’81W (EdD), ’97W (PhD), August 2017 John R. Cherry ’70S, ’85S (MBA), Trustee Barry Florescue ’66 Remembered August 2017 Audrey Hillgen Currie ’70, Barry Florescue ’66, a longtime member of the that manages more than 30 commercial real es- September 2017 Board of Trustees, is being remembered for his tate properties in Florida, Colorado, New York, Kathleen Maxwell Bernstein ’71, business acumen, entrepreneurial spirit, and and Utah. August 2017 engagement with the University. In addition to his service as a trustee and David G. Clark ’72M (MD), Florescue, who was elected to the board in member of several board committees, Flores- September 2017 1998 and served in several advisory capacities, cue served on the Flaum Eye Institute Advisory Saul J. Laskin ’72 (PhD), died in October at the age of 73. Board and the Simon Executive Advisory Com- May 2017 President and CEO Joel Seligman paid tribute mittee and was cochair of the Florida Campaign Donald D. Panzik ’72, to Florescue’s commitment to Rochester, partic- Cabinet. July 2017 ularly his support for an undergraduate business As an undergraduate, Florescue earned a Edward R. Kaiser ’73W (Mas), September 2017 program named in Florescue’s honor. business degree at Rochester from a program Alan R. Levinson ’73, “Barry’s more than two decades of support that was retired in 1972. At the time, the Simon August 2017 have made a lasting impact and have been recog- School—then the School of Business Administra- Randall K. Bart ’74, ’75S (MBA), nized over the years on campus,” Seligman said. tion—turned its focus to graduate studies. August 2017 “His extensive philanthropy will be a meaning- In the early 2010s, when the University re- John L. Larkin ’74, launched an initiative in under- July 2017 graduate business education as John M. Herrold ’75S (MBA), a partnership between Simon August 2017 and Arts, Sciences & Engineer- Douglas M. Worthman ’75, ing, Florescue provided key fi- August 2017 Jay L. Pivor ’76, ’81D, nancial support to the newly August 2017 created major. Roland G. St. Gelais ’76E, In recognition of his gen- September 2017 erosity, including additional William J. Lyon ’76M (Res), support for scholarships and November 2015 fellowships for students, the Marilyn Deamicis ’77 (PhD), ’94M major was named the Barry (Pdc), September 2017 Florescue Undergraduate Busi- Richard W. Katzberg ’77M (Res), ness Degree Program. September 2017 Florescue told Rochester Thomas J. Yock ’77 (PhD), September 2017 Review in 2011 that he hoped Bruce Haislip ’78D, the program would prepare August 2017 students for success. “When John W. Anderson ’80S (MBA), I learned that the University September 2017 was considering reestablish- Nancy Gordon Hess ’80, ing the business major that I August 2017 pursued as an undergraduate, Daniel D. Granger ’82, I knew this was an important August 2017 area of the dynamic curriculum Cynthia Rask ’82M (Res), ’85M that was worth supporting,” he (Res), July 2017 BUSINESS FOCUS: Florescue had “far-reaching impact on the University,” Charles Forte ’83D, said. “I am pleased to be a part particularly through his support for undergraduate business education. August 2017 of this new program, knowing Elizabeth Kelley ’83, ful part of his legacy, including his devoted work that it will prepare our students to become suc- August 2017 with the Florescue Family Foundation and other cessful players in the world of business.” Ann Burstrom ’85, charitable organizations. His impact will be felt Charlie Miersch ’70S (MBA), a former senior August 2017 on campus and throughout many other commu- associate dean at Simon, said Florescue was Allen Delattre ’88, nities for years to come.” an esteemed colleague and long-time friend July 2017 As a business leader, Florescue is credited who loved his country and the opportunities it William A. Grazier ’88, with transforming the struggling food services represented. August 2017 company Horn & Hardart into a prominent cor- “His courage, drive, and business acumen Corinne Sutter ’90 (MA), September 2017 poration, taking the company within a decade served as inspiration to me and many others,” John R. Thornbury ’93M (Res), to $700 million in sales and $150 million in net Miersch said. “Having known Barry for over 30 July 2017 worth. He also served as chairman of the board years, I can attest to his commitment to the Uni- Kenneth R. Walk ’93S (MBA), and CEO of Century Financial Group and CEO versity and undergraduate business in particular. August 2017 of the hotel amenity company Marietta. As a scholarship recipient himself, he wanted fu- James Glauser ’95D, At the time of his death, Florescue was chair- ture generations to have the same opportunities August 2017 man of the board and president of BMD Man- he did. His generosity and vision made that pos- Jana Behe-Kinneston ’99, agement Company, a privately owned business sible.”r —Scott Hauser August 2017

60 ROCHESTER REVIEW November–December 2017 J. ADAM FENSTER CLASS NOTES TRIBUTE Jack Keil ’44: ‘The Funniest Man I Ever Knew’ I first met Jack Keil ’44 when I went to the University in 1941. I left to serve during the war and graduated with the Class of ’47. In 1942, Jack was called into the Air Force, where he had a heroic career flying European missions over the oil fields and was awarded the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross for his services as a bombardier navigator. He came back to the University to graduate with his class. After the war, we were both in New York City. Jack had wanted to be an actor but ended up working for an advertising agency, and I worked in publishing. We had mutual friends, but we didn’t really get to know one another well until we were both University trustees and were appointed to the Library Trustee Visiting Commit- tee, which became the Libraries’ Advisory Council. For a time, we chaired the committee together. NOTED ADVISOR: A longtime trustee, Keil established a prominent career in advertising. While We were both very interested in the li- still a student, he was called into the Air Force (below), before finishing his studies. brary. Both of us grew up in Rochester, and we were commuting students. We from the radio show Vic and Sade, and later, McGruff, the Crime Dog, and came up with didn’t have any home on campus except Bob and Ray. My wife, Janet, and I used to McGruff’s signature phrase, “Take a Bite the library, so we knew every inch of that travel with him and Barbara. Once we were out of Crime.” He himself was the voice of place: the stacks, the study rooms, the ref- in a little airport down in the Caribbean, McGruff for years. He loved doing it, and he erence room, the lounges, everything. We sitting in a coffee shop. Jack jumped up kept doing it right up into his 80s. felt very warmly toward it. on a table, dancing and singing the Toyota Jack published a couple of books with When the University began its Campaign jingle. He worked at the ad agency Dancer John Wiley & Sons, the publisher for whom for the ’90s, we were concerned that the li- Fitzgerald Sample, where he was the cre- I worked: The Creative Mystique: How to brary didn’t have a prominent place in the ative director, and they’d just gotten the Manage It, Nurture It, and Make It Pay budget, and that computers were giving Toyota account. And then he sang the Co- (1985) and How to Zig in a Zagging World: people the idea that books and journals Unleashing Your Hidden Creativity (1988). didn’t have much of a future. A big-time jazz fan, Jack sang for years Jack and I felt that the libraries needed with a jazz combo at an inn in Saxons River, some protection and promotion, so we Vermont. He knew the words to every- went on a missionary journey for the li- thing. Even in his last days, he would go braries, with the support of four adminis- on Friday nights to join them. They loved trations over the years. They tolerated us at it, and they played at his funeral. first and supported us as we went along for He was always full of ideas, full of life, more than 20 years. With the help of past and saw fun in everything.r library deans Ron Dow and Susan Gibbons, —Andrew Neilly ’47, we tried to keep the library as the center of as told to Kathleen McGarvey the campus—which it was and which we believe it should be and continues to be Neilly was the president, CEO, and vice under Mary Ann Mavrinac. chairman of the board of publisher John Jack, who died in August at his home Wiley & Sons in New York City prior to his in Vermont, loved the work we did at the retirement in 1995. With Keil, Neilly helped library, and he and his wife, Barbara, en- raised $10 million for the libraries. He dowed a position, the John M. and Bar- coa Puffs song. And then he sat down again, and his wife also established the position bara Keil University Archivist and Special and people didn’t know what to make of of Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Collections Librarian. First held by Nancy it. But that was Jack, and he’d do that any Dean of River Campus Libraries. Janet Erich Martin ’65, ’94 (MA), the position is time, any place. had the idea of a lecture series to bring the occupied now by Melissa Mead. He once called me in my office and said town and the campus together, and their Jack was one of the funniest men I have the Ad Council wanted Dancer Fitzgerald endowed fund supports the Neilly Series ever known. He was a performer, and he Sample to do a public service campaign Lectures, a public lecture series sponsored was good. He used to re-enact routines about crime. He invented the character of by the River Campus Libraries.

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Earthling: Poems and Warner, a clinical professor emeritus, Books By James Longenbach in the Department of Obstetrics and Gy- Germany and the Ottoman Railways: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017 necology at the Medical Center. Art, Empire, and Infrastructure Longenbach’s poetry col- By Peter Christensen lection serves as “a medi- Distracted Doctoring: Yale University Press, 2017 tation on the ways in Returning to Patient-Centered Care Christensen explores which human beings in- in the Digital Age the political, cultural, habit their knowledge of Coedited by Peter Papadakos and architectural sig- impending mortality, Springer, 2017 nificance of the Otto- ranging from bemuse- Papadakos, a professor in man Railway Network, ment to panic.” Longen- the Department of Anes- a massive infrastruc- bach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore thesiology and Periopera- ture project built on a Professor of English at Rochester. tive Medicine at the paradox: it was “the Medical Center, coedits a pride of the empire and its ultimate em- Bertrand Russell’s Life and Legacy collection of essays by dis- blem of modernization—yet it was largely Edited by Peter Stone ’00 (PhD) tinguished practitioners designed and bankrolled by German cor- Vernon Press, 2017 addressing a “critical porations.” Christensen is an assistant Stone presents a collec- problem” in modern health care: that professor of art history at Rochester. tion of essays exploring “while electronic technology has revolu- the life and legacy of tionized the practice of medicine, it also Careers for Women Russell as an educator, poses a unique challenge to health care. By Joanna Scott activist, and as founder Smartphones in the hands of doctors and Little, Brown and Company, 2017 of analytic philosophy. nurses have become dangerously seductive The career of the real-life Stone is a lecturer in po- devices that can endanger their patients.” Lee Jaffe, the spokes- litical science at Trinity woman and head of pub- College Dublin. Osler for White Coat Pockets: lic relations at the New A Vade Mecum for Medical Students York Port Authority in Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself and Residents the late 1950s, is the Workbook for Small Museums, By Joe VanderVeer ’64M (MD) with jumping off point for Second Edition Charles Bryan Scott’s 10th work of fic- By Alice Parman ’64 et al American Osler Society, 2017 tion. Scott, the Roswell Smith Burrows Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 VanderVeer, a surgeon Professor of English at Rochester, draws Parman and the exhibit and president of the together a reimagined Jaffe, a young cler- team at the University American Osler Society, ical assistant, and a mysterious mother- of Oregon’s Museum of introduces medical stu- in-need in a tale of urban intrigue Natural and Cultural dents and newly minted touching on the themes of public rela- History present a re- physicians to the life and tions, women’s careers and friendships, vised and expanded ideals of Sir William and life in mid-century America. edition of the do-it- Osler, a pioneering yourself exhibit hand- Canadian-born physician and educator The Conductor’s Companion: 100 book for small museum staff and who was among the founders of Johns Rehearsal Techniques, Imaginative volunteers. Parman is a museum consul- Hopkins Hospital and of the modern Ideas, Quotes and Facts tant based in Eugene, Oregon. medical residency. Edited by Gary Stith ’79E (MM) Meredith Music Publications, 2017 The Little Book of Menopause: George Sotter: Light and Shadow Stith shares some of the Essays on the Biology and By Valerie Ann Leeds ’79 most innovative rehears- Management of Menopause James A. Michener Art Museum, 2017 al techniques drawn By James Woods and Elizabeth Warner Independent curator from a 2016–17 nation- ’79M (MD), ’83M (Res) Leeds provides an wide survey of distin- PeriFACTS OB/GYN Academy, 2016 overview of the art and guished middle school, Woods and Warner of- life of Pennsylvania high school, and univer- fer a guide to meno- artist George Sotter, sity band and orchestra pause focused on the who settled in Bucks directors. Stith is an adjunct professor of role of inflammation, a County in 1919 and is music education at Ithaca College and a byproduct of declining known for his winter professor and conductor emeritus at the estrogen, in triggering nocturnes. The book accompanies the Greatbatch School of Music at Houghton menopausal symptoms. first museum exhibition of Sotter’s work College in Houghton, New York. Woods is a professor, since 1950.

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rr_Nov2017_Books.indd 62 11/13/17 10:06 AM BOOKS & RECORDINGS The Psychopathology an assistant professor in the Departments Natural Leadership: of American Capitalism of History and Health Policy and Man- What the Birds and the Bees By Thomas Bonfiglio ’72 agement at Florida International and the Beasts Can Teach Us Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 University. By Marlene Caroselli ’80W (EdD) Bonfiglio, the Gaines Pro- HRD Press, 2017 fessor of Literature and Nightingale Tales: Caroselli, an author Linguistics at the Univer- Stories from My Life as a Nurse and corporate trainer, sity of Richmond, draws By Lynn Dow ’59N mines the animal on psychoanalytic and She Writes Press, 2017 kingdom for exam- Marxist theory to explore Dow, a retired registered ples of leadership why, as he argues, “the nurse, presents a memoir traits and behaviors working class [in the of her 50-year career as a to offer a fresh take United States] tends to vote against its staff nurse, head nurse, on the elements of good leadership. own interests.” The book is part of the teacher, and mentor at publisher’s Critical Political Theory and large medical centers on Radical Practice series. both the East and West Coasts. She lives in Recordings Epiduralized Birth and Nurse- San Francisco. Claude Debussy: 12 Études Midwifery: Childbirth in the United By Paulina Zamora ’89E (MM) States, A Medical Ethnography Pomona’s Lost Children: Delos, 2017 By Maureen May ’91N (MS) A Book of Uncommon Antique Fruits Pianist Zamora offers Sampson Book Publishing, 2017 By Jay Stratton ’74 (MA) one of the few record- May presents an ethnog- Chautauqua Gorge Press, 2017 ings of Debussy’s rarely raphy exploring the cul- Stratton presents a performed 12 études tural and social aspects of cookbook and farm from 1915. Zamora, who maternity care through memoir telling “the teaches at the Universi- the lens of nurse- stories of a dozen and ty of Chile in Santiago, has also released midwifery in a single more old-fashioned Brahms: The Three Piano Trios (Delos). community hospital. May, fruits, delving into who died in June, was a ethnobotany, New Angle certified nurse-midwife and nurse practi- mythology, and lin- By the All Angles Orchestra tioner specializing in women’s health. guistics as well as the cuisine of our an- Outside In Music, 2016 This was her first book. cestors.” A retired teacher, Stratton The 15-piece ensemble writes frequently on food and ecology. founded and led by Chicken Poop for the Soil: Wit and composer and trombon- Wisdom from the Humble Farmer Petty’s Branding Law: ist Mike Conrad ’13E By Robert Karl Skoglund ’70 (MA) A Guide to the Legal Issues (MM) performs original CreateSpace, 2017 in Brand Management works fusing classical Skoglund, a longtime col- By Ross Petty ’74, ’74S (MBA) and jazz elements. Conrad is a doctoral umnist for Maine’s Port- West Academic, 2016 student in jazz studies at the University land Press Herald and Petty, a professor of mar- of Northern Colorado. host of the Maine Public keting law and faculty Radio program The Hum- scholar at Babson Col- Back to Classics: Bach ble Farmer, presents a lege, examines the legal By Hongsup Lee ’12E compilation of four de- issues associated with The Classic Art, 2017 cades of his writings. developing a new brand. On his debut solo re- cording, pianist Lee of- Burdens of War: Creating the United fers 21st-century States Veterans Health System interpretations of nine By Jessica Adler ’00 Barry Baskerville’s selections by the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017 Marvelous Memory 18th-century composer. Adler explores how and By Richard Kellogg ’70W (EdD) why the veterans’ health Airship 27, 2017 Books & Recordings is a compilation of system emerged from its Kellogg, a profes- recent work by University alumni, faculty, halting origins during the sor emeritus of and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming First World War, “amid psychology at Al- issue, send the work’s title, publisher, skepticism about the bur- fred State College, author or performer, a brief description, den of long-term obliga- presents the fifth and a high-resolution cover image, to tions,” to a point, on the volume in his Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, eve of the Second World War, when it mystery series 22 Wallis Hall, Box 270044, University of was poised to become the country’s larg- featuring youth Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or est integrated health care system. Adler is detective Barry Baskerville. by email to [email protected].

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rr_Nov2017_Books.indd 63 11/13/17 10:07 AM Master Class Mixed Media Storytelling Dave Chisholm ’13E (DMA) knows how to craft a single story in two distinct media: comic art and jazz. Interview by Jim Ver Steeg piece—putting some of these historical elements in the story. The basic story is that this trumpet player, Tom, is in his early 20s I’ve always had this real ping pong in my life back and forth be- and he’s just frustrated. He has the same crappy gig with his band tween music and comics. I self-published a book in 2009 called twice a week at this flower shop and nobody comes out to hear Let’s Go to Utah, and it was kind of a small cult hit in the indie com- them play. He feels that his best days are behind him, even at age ics world. At the time, I was in the middle of my master’s degree at 20-something. Then he’s given this old trumpet that makes the the University of Utah, and I became really excited about combin- most amazing and transcendent music, but every time he plays ing music and comics. I read a lot of comics, and I’m always aware it, somebody dies. At least at first. of a sense of pace and a sense of rhythm between panels, and how much time is passing from panel to panel. With all of the parallels As far as how the music and the book interact, there are some in music, I thought, “this would be cool.” And that would be the symbolic elements in the music. When Tom’s dissatisfaction aris- basic inspiration that led to my multimedia work Instrumental. es, there’s this dissonant interval that comes up on most of the tracks. After he plays the horn the first time, that dissonance is re- I started with the idea that the main character should be a trum- placed by a more typical harmonic scheme. I also made the instru- pet player, because I’m a trumpet player. It really wasn’t the mentation on the album the same as the instrumentation of Tom’s most sophisticated idea, initially. And then it sat in my head for band—trumpet, guitar, piano, bass, and drums. So some of the the next three and a half years, during which I moved to Roches- tracks are meant to depict the music being played by Tom’s band. ter and started and finished my DMA from Eastman. During that whole time I was working out, Who are the characters? What’s I include a foreword in the book that encourages the conflict? Is there a story behind the horn itself? And so on. experimentation in combining the two medi- ums. I’m actually slightly hesitant to dive When I was studying for my comps, I discovered into the symbolism, because it kind of all of these musicians who were mystics. It was chills anyone’s ability to make their own really amazing, and that was really the final interpretation. For example, the music for the chapter after Tom is given the horn isn’t meant to be a blow-by-blow of that whole chapter; it’s about cap- turing that moment when he plays his new instrument in front of a crowd for Dave Chisholm the first time.

’13E (DMA) The truth is that the comic side and Composer, multi-instrumentalist, comic the music side will grind up against artist; creator of Instrumental (Z2 Comics/ each other dissonantly, in a sense. It Outside-In Music), a graphic novel and has to do with temporality. The great soundtrack; faculty member, Hochstein School thing about comics is that you can spend of Music and Dance as much time as you want on any one panel. Home: Rochester With music, you’re at the mercy of the com- On Eastman musicians and DMA comps: “All the poser. When you read the book while listen- musicians on the Instrumental soundtrack were from ing to the soundtrack, you’ll be aware of time.r Eastman. Having them allowed me to not hold back in writing music that’s conceptually a bit beyond what you might usually hear. Another of the most valuable things about Eastman was just the process of studying for comps. It allowed me to fall in love with a lot more music than I thought I was capable of falling in love with. I never thought that I would like Mozart opera, or Renaissance motets and masses, or early 20th-century music that pushes beyond tonal limits.”

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